Duane Towler wrote in a message to Ronald Deal:
DT> Just wanted to jump in on this one the info that she is giving is
DT> very helpful and with a little investigating you will find that it
DT> something that everyone has the right to have access to.  It is all
DT> public information.I have used many of these ideas when I worked in
DT> fugitive recovery for a bail bonds company in KCMO.
The information may *-presently-* be public information, but there are those 
who feel that adoptees and birth-family members have absolutely no right to 
be able to search for each other and they will do whatever they can to stop 
those who would search!!  And since there is no way to determine who might be 
reading the messages in this area but never posting (i.e., lurking) and what 
their private agenda(s) might be, it is best to not "sell the store" away.  
This is a very sad but real part of the search arena.
I'm sure that you ran into people who would try to block your efforts to 
locate some fugitive.  Sometimes just because they didn't like the idea of 
someone trying to capture them...  Also, what may be legal to do today may be 
illegal at some time in the future - sometimes as a result of event(s) that 
take place today.
Michael Kirst
f/k/a Christopher Lee Backus
Sysop of The Noble House BBS
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