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  Does this include mental health diagnosis as well? It should.
context: In Sweden you can look up anyone’s crime record and income with the click of a button, it’s good for checking out potential tinder dates (the crime record part, not the income) but it’s also kinda creepy that pretty much your entire life is public and you can’t block access to your info. >
  
  Everyone’s income is public knowledge? >
  
  Yup, you can either contact our tax agency for free or pay a symbolic sum to one of the companies that provide this information, I think in some cases the person will be informed that you’ve made the request though. >
  
  How interesting…. I know that would make for a very different situation here in the states. >
  
  Sweden's kind of big on transparency. You can also google where pretty much anyone lives and what their phone number is. If you google my name and surname you'll get the precise address I live at, what year I was born, when my birthday is etc. Eniro.se and many similar sites function as modern day phonebooks. 
  Just last week I found someone's ID at one of those 24/7 unmanned convenience stores. I looked the name up on Eniro to see where he lived so I could go put it in his mailbox. >
  
  Seems like a bad country to live in if you have a stalker problem. >
  
  If you have a stalker and have reported this to the police, you can  apply for privacy marking with the Swedish tax agency, which will then exempt you from the public registry
  Goes for anyone who has cause for protected identity and can certify this with police paperwork >
  
  It's very difficult to get protected identity, far from anyone who wants or needs it gets it. >
  
  Just hire someone to stalk you so you have a case. 😌 >
  
  A bit of cost upfront and all of the sudden you're anonymous >
  
  I read that as Australian (NSFW) and was wondering what made Australians so problematic >
  
  New South Fucking Wales >
  
  As a Victorian, that is how we usually say it when discussing our northern state >
  
  Ditto from Queensland when talking about the southern state >
  
  Oi cunt >
  
  I think this is a good idea.
  I happen to remember that in Colombia you can't legally marry if you have killed a former partner. >
  
  This needs to be a law everywhere >
  
  I disagree. It is, despite the internet's hateboner for criminals, entirely possible for criminals to be reformed. It'd be a lot fucking easier if we didn't treat them like subhuman scum, actually. >
  
  Reddit funnily enough swings between hating criminals to death and also simultaneously whining why countries aren't adopting Nordic rehab style prisons. >
  
  Yeah, both groups are prominent here on reddit (I think less so elsewhere on the internet), but I directed my comment towards the "treat them like subhumans" crowd because I feel they're more prevalent overall, and they're obviously more dominant here. >
  
  “Oh my god, your K/D ratio is awful. We are so over.” >
  
  Because nobody wants to find out the hard way that they are dating Katherine Knight >
  
  She’s a great example, in some ways. 
  But also, everyone knew. Aberdeen is a small community. There weren’t many people who didn’t know about her tendency towards violence. Her previous interactions with police were well known. Pricey certainly knew about many of them, and he’d been at the centre of a few of them. 
  In the case of a database like the one mentioned in the article, it’s only going to be particularly useful if the potential victim uses the information to approach a relationship in a different way. There are plenty of people out there who will know, 100% for certain and in graphic detail, about someone’s violent history, and still pursue/maintain a relationship with them. 
  That’s absolutely not victim blaming - it’s an example of how complex these kind of scenarios really are. 
  I’m in support of this kind of resource though - I think that anything which might provide the critical piece of information to help a person make a decision which saves them from the grief and trauma of a violent relationship is worth pursuing. >
  
  Put pedophiles on this list >
  
  On the one hand I understand the need. On the other hand your past will forever haunt you >
  
  Or you could be straight and honest and talk with your partner about your past offences and what you've done to change for the better, as ppl do with any other kind of criminal record. It is normal to be afraid of being judged, but actively hiding that info from your partner could lead to irreparable mistrust if they find out from and outside source. >
  
  Your never gonna get to the point of talking if they can look up your record before your first date >
  
  I obviously feel bad for anyone who is convicted of a false charge but fuck anyone who beats up their partner. They deserve to be alone. Domestic violence tends to usually not be a one time event >
  
  I don’t know, I agree that it’s a completely fucked up thing to do, but we should allow a chance for redemption. Should all violent criminals be shunned and left to wallow in misery, if they have done the time and show they can be rehabilitated? >
  
  Sure, but do people also deserve to get into relationships with repeat offenders when this information could have made that avoidable? >
  
  Yea, ultimately I think it makes more sense to prioritize helping people make an informed choice to avoid or engage with those with a history of violence. >
  
  Not sure how it works, but if it only showed the past 10-20 years maybe that could be a nice middle ground >
  
  Meanwhile, other countries let offenders change their names to hide from disclosure… >
  
  To be fair, for most of our history people were banished, or just left of their own accord, and went somewhere else to create a new life, and leave their old troubles behind.  There were plenty of immigrants to North America that were running from something or other, be it debt, religious persecution, or the clutches of the authorities.  It was easy to create a new identity for oneself, and start a new life.
  These days, a credit card debt will follow you all over the world, never mind a criminal conviction. >
  
  Brave New World folks; your great-grandchildren are going to simply type your name and be able to pull up your entire online history. >
  
  You're... currently describing Facebook >
  
  If it was just my FB history being found I’d be completely ok with that. If your worst is on Facebook then I’d just find you downright boring. >
  
  Cue every Australian woman searching for their toxic exes >
  
  I think it's too far. The intent might be good but it's over reaching. People will use info against others for political gain or smearing others. >
  
  I’m starting to understand why the Egyptian civilization failed. Three thousand years of abbreviations by the end of it it was just duck snake snake goose.  I’m reading this article like not safe work what? >
  
  
  I’m starting to understand why the Egyptian civilization failed. Three thousand years of abbreviations by the end of it it was just duck snake snake goose. I’m reading this article like not safe work what?
  
  New South Wales... >
  
  So you can just slap an AVO on your ex to make sure they never date again? >
  
  Only breaches of AVOs show up on police checks >
  
  Yeah, but sometimes the orders are extremely easy to breach. E.g. Not allowed to go to within 500 meters of daycare for their kid except when it's their turn to pick them up. A small town supermarket may be within that radius. Also, there is no requirement that the claims to apply an AVO/IVO be true. You don't even need to be violent to have an IVO placed against you, only that the accuser "feels unsafe". I've heard multiple cases where an IVO has been abused for leverage. >
  
  They're just now going to be allowed to do that? >
  
  Why aren't all criminal records freely available to everyone? >
  
  It would allow people to discriminate against former prisoners, which is against the law. "They've paid their debt, they shouldn't be judged on the past actions." and so forth. >
  
  So why do companies do background checks? >
  
  Cause they're dogs >
  
  Excellent  idea…my best friend dated a guy we all thought was fantastic, seemed an absolute gentleman…2 years on she’s in hospital with a broken jaw and ribs and it comes out he had an extensive history of domestic violence and stalking. A cop did her a favour and told her his history when he shouldn’t have. 
  If people don’t want police records of violent offences being open to the public then they can not commit violent offences. Sex Offender registers should be open too. >
  
  Great idea.  Should be worldwide.