Well my info was out on the web. He found us, and really, restraining orders mean nothing to some people. The point is, he used the system AGAINST us, the system that would NOT allow him to ask where we lived, the system that held him for half an hour each court appointment to make sure we had sufficient time to get out of the area. He simple typed my name into simple search and than immediately began driving by our home.

The system screwed us. So now we are moving. Having the information is NOT a good thing to have on the internet. No one needs to know what is going on courtrooms across Wisconsin. Other states do not allow this, recognizing that there are MANY reasons why people have a right to privacy.

I am not sure who voted to have such a website ‘go live’ in this state but one would think that a site that posted such data on the Internet (THE WORLD WIDE WEB) would have taken into account the constitutionality of such a website prior to having gone life. Which incidentally was not on 4/5/1999 as the Wisconsin Blue Book states but on January 1st, 1992 in Villas County, WI.

It is true, however, according to WI Blue Book (2005/06), WI was the first of the states in the US to have put such a website online. Unfortunately, according to the WI Blue Book (05/06) the group of people disbursed after their great Unconstitutional Technological feat. As the Blue Book states…the “disbanded”. Obviously, without any regards to the Constitutionality of the website. Anyone who may have been unfortunate to have his/her data posted to the website as a first time experiment, was SOL with regards to his/her Constitutional rights. Again, one must remember that the data is WORLD WIDE!!!!!!! Something that this state’s judicial system simply refuses to comprehend.

So, there’s been lots of hoopla about the website being used to discriminate in the housing industry. Specifically, landlords are complaining about State Representative Marlin Schneider’s AB 340 bill. I wish I could share with you my experience on how a landlord in Green Bay, WI (also a teacher at the same college I was attending for paralegal studies) used the website to invade my privacy by entering my apartment numerous times and also how he would play a game with GB judicial system, one specific judge, and numerous tenants in order to control, control, control. I lost years of my life while renting from him. It took me awhile to realize what he was doing and not until another tenant who was in the process of moving out, told me that she had seen the landlord in my apartment and others did I finally understand how landlords use the website, CCAP, to harass. This state is truly pathetic. There are other aspects of my personal life that the landlord invaded via the use of the CCAP website too but are much too personal to delve into now.

When the subject of CCAP comes up for debate in this state, it first must be realized that WI is the first of it’s kind to have such a legal website. Although is is true that other states have followed the precedent and have their own websites now they STILL are not like WI’s website in too many ways herein to mention. Most states post “post conviction” postings which allows a defendant to go through the Constitutionally guaranteed “due process stage” of his/her case. There are also structural differences that vary among each state websites. There should be uniformity. The Center for Democracy & Technology was discussing this matter back in 2006 (over three years ago). Why should one person convicted of a felony be martyred around just because they live in one particular state. A state like WI that seems to think that just because they plopped a legal website out there for the entire world to view without regards to it’s state’s citizens rights or Constitutional rights.

I just don’t understand it.

I am truly proud to have read the other posts on this blogg from people, citizens that may have found themselves on the CCAP website and have tried to start their lives over but were denied this Constitutional right because of the website. In this state you are not “innocent until proven guilty”. It is the opposite. I am not paranoid but it’s like a third world country where a person cannot even step out his/her front door without be totally on guard. This is not Constitutional. It’s not Freedom.

If anyone who unfortunately found him/herself on the website, they deserve a second chance. I am speaking specifically for misdemeanors and ‘hey’ anyone with any type of conviction, right.

People deserve a second chance. They should be able to pay their debt to society and start over. But there is absolutely “NO” starting over is this state. NONE!!! This is not Constitutional!!!

One other note: Former President Bush signed into law “The Second Chance Act” in the fall of 2007. This law is null and void in this state by the sheer existence of the CCAP website and how it is used to discriminate against anyone that unfortunately has found him/herself on the website stemming from something from years ago.

Again, if a person finds him/herself in an legal infraction of the law and it goes into circuit courts in this state, it will be displayed on CCAP for the entire world to see. AT NO COST. This means that the US Dollar doesn’t mean a thing to the WI judicial system either. No wonder this state has the debt per capita than any other state and the lowest wages nationally and other economically depressing data.

Ok, the WI Supreme Court Justices, Judges, Clerks and favored attorneys created a great sort of website in some regards. Get over it!! Great, you’re not all technology gurus. I would feel much more comfortable going through a case, as a defendant, in court with a judge focusing on the due process stage than a computer glitch.

Obviously computers are not going away. And if the Federal Govt continues to push for a virtual judicial system, for whatever reason, then they should crack the whip and make all states consistent across the board in terms of structure!!!!!!!!

I am a citizen of WI and was born and raised in WI. I’m ashamed to say this because of the fact that all my Constitutional rights have been violated via the use of the CCAP (Wisconsin’s open Circuit Courts website).

One more note: The Wisconsin Legislature likes to sugar coat the sites existence/development by changing the name(s) of the website over the past twenty years in order to, I believe, confuse the public and allow the Legislature to continue to exploit the Citizens of WI without even their knowledge of this happening. This is sad.

I give full credit to Mr. Marlin Schneider in his continued quest to protect WI’s citizen’s Constitutional rights despite that fact that most do not even know that they are being robbed and exploited of their rights, not just in this country but around the world.

We will be the weakest link in all the states if we cannot see what we are doing to our states citizens with the WI CCAP website.