“Stop Child Predators” is a FAKE grassroots advocacy group.
The non-profit group “Stop Child Predators” has been exposed for what it is, a fake! A recent article in the Huffington Post exposes the group’s underlying interests – lobbying on behalf of businesses seeking to profit by scaring the public.
Case in point, the “group has published nearly identical op-eds and letters to the editor in Miami and Washington, D.C., and participated in anti-Airbnb campaigns in Los Angeles, Boston and San Diego” All claiming AirBNB is a vehicle through which child predators can get closer to children. The real motivation? Major hotel chains funding the efforts to stop vacation rental apps from encroaching on their market shares.
This isn’t the first time the group pushed the stranger danger angle for personal gain,”According to a 2011 Mother Jones investigation, one of the group’s earliest lobbying efforts was in support of “Jessica’s Law,” legislation that requires sex offenders to be monitored by GPS. At the time, Rumenap [Stacie Rumenap, president of the nonprofit Stop Child Predators] was on the advisory board of Omnilink Systems, a major vendor of the “offender monitoring” devices. Mother Jones reported that Omnilink would have earned up to $20 per person per day for every sex offender subject to the law if monitored using Omnilink’s equipment. Omnilink was also listed as a corporate partner of Stop Child Predators at the time.”
Here in Florida, we have to be especially weary of these non-profit child advocacy groups who receive significant financial support from corporate interests, such as private prison groups, in order to perpetuate fear in the public.
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Know what else is (almost) fake? OffenderWatch.
Google OffenderWatch news. It’s hilarious. Law enforcement agencies throughout the country receive positive press coverage by receiving awards from OffenderWatch, a database contractor.
On the surface, LE receives OffenderWatch awards for protecting the community. But when it comes to sex registries, we know they are doing no such thing. I suspect they are really receiving the reward for customer loyalty and for using OffenderWatch products (and as a way for OffenderWatch to receive free advertising in the press).
It appears to me that OffenderWatch makes a great deal of revenue off of the suffering of registrant families. Therefore, my question is what, if anything, can/should FAC (or NARSOL, since they’re not Florida-specific) do to tangle with them?
Thank you, FAC, for bringing to our attention, profit-driven fake advocacy that profits from suffering.
NAME NAMES and CONTACTS.. we need to know so we can flood their vitriol email and phones with harnessing anti corporate greed hating messages and expose the neo Facists they really are!
Database contractors are among other corporate interests that hide behind claims of child protection. From time to time you will see press coverage of awards given (by these contractors) to law enforcement for effective administration of the SO registry.
Right – Offender Watch issues their own “Awards” for police departments that use them. It’s a joke!
You beat me to the punch, FAC! I had to google to remember their name and then composed a long-winded post about it.
I agree they’re a joke. But I am wondering, is there anything in particular we can be doing to EXPOSE them as a joke? After all, readers of these news articles may not get the joke!
Were I to create my own parody of our registry-industrial complex, I don’t think I could do much better than OffenserWatch’s amazing Twitter account.
Pardon my obsession, I realize that this convo originally was about for-profit fake grassroots advocacy, not for-profit fake law enforcement awards, but now that I’ve been prompted to view this stuff, I feel I should DO something, it’s just unclear what.
As in most corruption, just follow the money trail.
exactly but how do we get from being a life time member of the system to free again? Is there such a thing or do we live this life out an asset to the sorority?
Is this really shocking? Damn near every “nonprofit” advocacy group or organization is ironically driven by profit and fear mongering to justify their existence, up to and including NCMEC.