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[ca] The Former Apartment My Family And I Lived In Gave Our New Address To Our Violent Aggressive Father. Is This Illegal?

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I(F13), my brother (M14) experienced some chaos today when my dad (M55) knocked on our door when my mom (F53) was at work.

On May 16th my dad called my mom and threatened to kill us and said he would be driving to San Jose (California) to "see you and the kids" but then the same day threatened us, he is trying to get a bipolar diagnosis and I can confidently say he is most likely bipolar but anyway we didnt think much of it because he's been terrorizing us for years verbally on the phone and I havent seen my dad in real life since I was 5.

He drove to our old apartment complex in the same week of May 16th and knocked on every single door and couldn't find us as we moved away 2 years ago, nobody who knows him has our address not even my moms coworkers only our old apartment office knows where we live and we know that they gave him our address which is why we are all in danger now.

Cops were called on June 1st at around 3:10 pm. I woke up at 3:07pm and was in the hallway, all of a sudden someone kept knocking and ringing the doorbell. At first we thought it was a package or maintenance guy but the person was very eager to get us to respond and open the door so I tried to look through the peep hole and we couldn't see because our door decoration blocked it, I was about to open the door but my brother thankfully started shouting "who is it, who are you" and things similar. My "dad" eventually answered and said "it's dad (my brothers name), can you open the door please i want to see you" I immediately texted my mom and my brother ran to the other side of our home and called the cops where I went with him and started giving the cops more information because my brother is a little slow and was freaking out.

The cops came and I spoke to them, they filed an emergency restraining order for a week and my mom will be getting an actual restraining order on Monday. Cops said he will be arrested if he does not cooperate and comes near us.

Some other info: my parents are not divorced because in the state of California my mom would be required to pay him alimony as he is homeless. They have been separated since 2011. And my dad does not live in San Jose or in Norcal, he apparently lives in San Diego and other nearby cities in Socal and is apparently homeless or jumping from house to house with new girlfriends/friends

I want to know if this is illegal in the state of California to release information such as our new address and other info if a person asks. None of us consented for our information to be released and our address isn't on public records as I checked and requested to be removed months ago. I know for sure the old apartment gave the address because for the past 2 years he did not know we moved and our new address is not public.

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