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The National Council on Identity Policy History of the NCIDP The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many. Read more about the NCIDP... ~ Our founder began the work of the NCIDP to research her own options for escaping a violent perpetrator of domestic violence and making herself safe. Her perpetrator had threatened to hunt her down and enact numerous torturous methods of murder (too gruesome to describe here without an "Adult Content" warning on this website) should she attempt to escape the violence and leave that perpetrator. Worse, her perpetrator had a low-level government position with high-level access to innumerable government and industry databases - and a history of corrupt abuses of power and authority, and enactments of violence. After turning to numerous lawyers, legal aid organizations, and domestic violence organizations and, each time being told that they knew nothing about keeping safe from perpetrators of such violence, that they each knew only of exposing oneself more to the perpetrator with court proceedings, and nothing beyond that process; after being told this repeatedly, our founder hit the law books. Operating without resources, without help from any organizations, agencies or individuals with information to offer on these issues, she examined Federal and state laws and case law - reading all of that legalese word-for-word, line by line, many times over. She quickly came to know more on the subject than any lawyer that she could find, contact and question - more even than those lawyers purporting expertise in related fields of law. She left many a lawyer dumbfounded, perplexed, and scratching his or her own head - at best acknowledging the apparent propriety of our founder's legal arguments while further admitting it to be beyond his or her own knowledge and experience and ability to offer assistance. Almost against her will, she became a leading expert on identity law, perhaps becoming one of the first professors specialized in that body of law within the U.S. She hated every minute of it. Our founder's highest aspiration in life was always to be a homemaker, housewife and, if she cold make her life safe enough, perhaps become a full-time mom. Her own several short, successful, but unremarkable careers always, in her view, paled in comparison to the noble role of homemaker and stay-at-home mom. She did NOT want to be forced to "fight" for the simple exercise of her own fundamental rights. But, it was a matter of survival - she knew that she'd never have the opportunity to realize her homemaking and parenting dreams if she didn't stand and fight. Our founder was confronted by one overarching fact: systematic reperpetrations by those whose duty is to help, serve or protect CAN be far more damaging to a survivor than the original perpetrations of violence.
In short order, our founder had learned well that her life safety depended upon her exercise of control over her personal identifying information through the exercise of her fundamental legal rights to do so. She also had learned that a great deal of entrenched malfeasance and extremism had to be overcome; had encountered other survivors and expanded her research to incorporate most topics related to the conjunction of identity information and privacy. At the end of that year or so, her efforts were finally heard, and a tsunami of shock spread across California. Sadly, not all agencies and organizations seemed to notice that shock wave, and outside the educational sector, little attention was paid. The efforts, though partially successful, had spanned years and had depleted our founder. She continued to struggle onward, now an acknowledged expert known only in limited circles, but was still forced to live largely in the underground while continuing to deal with other malfeasant public servants and agencies. As a consequence, she continued to face the ongoing threats and enactments of violence that she was attempting to make herself safe from, and even violence from some of the recalcitrant agencies callous to the danger she faced and resistant to her safety efforts. The shortcoming, she had learned, was that privacy advocates seemed to focus exclusively on civil litigation remedies (which are generally rather paltry), virtually ignoring criminal statutory protections - where most significant protections lay. Her groundbreaking, yet qualified, success in the educational sector arose from her one simple focus in her firm assertions of her rights - education. She thoroughly and insistently provided simple and straightforward facts, quotes and citations of law until finally it was heard. The same facts that we at the National Council on Identity Policy now bring to you on this website, with some updating to reflect recent changes in the legal landscape. Our founder was drugged, kidnapped and left to die.
In 2004, almost a decade after this work began, The National Council on Identity Policy began broad public outreach efforts as an entity with the purpose of carrying onward the torch lit by our founder. That year, the NCIDP first established a rudimentary web presence in the form of a crude starter page at NCIDPolicy.org (NCIDPolicy.com and NCIDPolicy.net both redirect to NCIDPolicy.org). As an organization, we see little value in putting our energy toward additional statutory privacy protections when so many current legal protections are left neglected and underenforced already. We devote most of our time, energy and concerns to utilization and enforcement of existing standards of laws and the protections that those standards offer. Most of the Federal laws that we cite have been in existence for decades - and insofar as these issues are concerned, mostly neglected for decades, too. The sickening aspect to that neglect is that these laws are designed specifically to protect such rights and end both individual and organized efforts to arrogate such rights. In 2007, we were called upon for a record number of professional consultations by legal professionals. In 2008, the NCIDP began actively expanding its website here at NCIDPolicy.org, which it continues to grow and expand. The NCIDP still has no means of accepting monetary donations except in the form of cash. (Please see our donations page if you have a suitcase full, or some other amount, lying about that you'd like to donate). We are an organization of, about, by, and for survivors of violence. Our goal is to end reperpetrations upon such survivors by those to whom we are supposed to be able to turn safely. We make every effort to continue in the vein of simple and straightforward language to the greatest extent that the legalese we deal with allows us to without compromising accuracy. That means, it isn't always easily put into explanations that most lay-persons (non-lawyers) might regard as simple language, but we try. |