<div dir="ltr"><div>The police and a parole officer are VERY different people/roles. Parole officers are, for the most part, office based paper pushers. They're not law enforcement per-se. They don't give a crap that you teach lock-picking, crypto-stuff, etc.<br><br></div>And the parole officer has already looked into the organization if he's taken the effort to reach out to contact them. Any damage (which is none) has already been done. Take advantage of him reaching out. At the end of the day, their job is to try and prevent someone from re-offending - they'll let you know if you're making that a higher chance of happening (by letting them in the org) or if they're only letting you know because of a legal requirement to do so<br><div><div><img src="https://t.yesware.com/t/b9ea0a195eb81838d7c9dc2255202552cf5e8b94/920fb3cd735b5ce7e2778c814085a461/spacer.gif" style="border: 0; width: 0px; height: 0px;" height="0" width="0"><img src="http://t.yesware.com/t/b9ea0a195eb81838d7c9dc2255202552cf5e8b94/920fb3cd735b5ce7e2778c814085a461/spacer.gif" style="border: 0; width: 0px; height: 0px;" height="0" width="0"><font style face="yw-b9ea0a195eb81838d7c9dc2255202552cf5e8b94-920fb3cd735b5ce7e2778c814085a461--tolf"></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 8:55 AM, Don Ankney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dankney@hackerco.de" target="_blank">dankney@hackerco.de</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>So you really want to start a conversation with the police about a Hackerspace? There's so much potential for misunderstanding.</div><div><div class="h5">
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On Feb 16, 2015, at 9:54 PM, Rob Davy <<a href="mailto:rob@robdavy.com" target="_blank">rob@robdavy.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">I would suggest calling the PO and basically saying "off the record, knowing what you know about what we do here and who does it here, would you let him join our organization?" Stress the off-the-record, person-to-person nature of the question.
People are often very forth-coming when you ask like that<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 9:49 PM, Arclight <span dir="ltr">
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I guess I should clarify: The dude was a creeper who was found in a<br>
hotel room with a random 13 year-old runaway. The Amber Alert was<br>
pretty much the last straw and not surprising to anyone involved.<br>
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:48 PM, Arclight <<a href="mailto:arclight@gmail.com" target="_blank">arclight@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Brett Dikeman <<a href="mailto:brett.dikeman@gmail.com" target="_blank">brett.dikeman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Uh...that was pretty stupid of your space, given the huge number of false<br>
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>> Hilarious to see this coming from someone using a pseudonym...<br>
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> Not really, as it was not a false alarm.<br>
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