The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) - About Firewire News Case Studies

The National Council on Identity Policy (NCIDP) was born of the struggles of one tenacious survivor of domestic violence and stalking. The NCIDP continues her work with the help of many. Read more about the NCIDP...

Firewire News is the news publication produced by the Firewire newsroom in association with The National Council on Identity Policy. Firewire focuses on news stories related to identity and identity crimes, covering some of the stories in which the NCIDP takes action, as well as stories unrelated to NCIDP involvements.

Firewire adheres to the NCIDP naming conventions, which is to say it almost never does. That is, as with the NCIDP, Firewire avoids disclosing personally identifiable information as a matter of routine, limiting itself to naming public entities and occasional job titles wherever it seems such naming does not allow for easy individual identification of the titleholder. The NCIDP itself withholds such information from Firewire.

Stories about specific incidents that may not have been widely publicized elsewhere are published here only after some delay to ensure that victims are not further jeopardized. This concurrently reduces the odds of individual identities being exposed by disclosure of titles, although Firewire does not necessarily follow perpetrators closely enough subsequent to a story to know if any titleholder retains the same title at the time of publication - or if the relevant titleholder had been terminated and imprisoned, as is generally appropriate in most NCIDP cases. Firewire requests that its readers never assume that any current titleholder that might be identifiable through other sources is the same individual who held that title at the time of the original Firewire news report.

Stories that appear to be widely known or easily available to the public through print or electronic publication or other means may be published at any time. However, even if the named individuals are also widely known through such other sources, Firewire will continue to adhere to our policy of withholding names from its articles.

In all cases, Firewire's priority is to protect the victims. At Firewire, the news always takes a back seat to the safety of the victims.

Here at the NCIDP website, a selection of past and present Firewire news stories are reprinted as case studies. These case studies show the real life impact that identity law, and arrogation of identity law, has on survivors, people, society and the rule of law. In reprinting the Firewire News stories as Case Studies, the NCIDP may add editorial comments that it feels are important, but which may not have appeared in the original news article published by Firewire News.

The primary work of the NCIDP is narrowly focused on identity crimes in relation to survivors of extreme violence. Consequently, common themes and trends may reveal themselves as readers progress through the case studies. That is, it may be noted that many cases involve methodical stalking and/or homicidal assault, often precipitated by identity crimes against the victim. This lies at the heart of the mission of The National Council on Identity Policy, and such cases constitute the bulk of its case work to date.

The secondary work of the NCIDP is to address identity crime cases regardless of status of the individual as a victim of other violence. The Cal Poly Pomona case study (that's California State Polytechnic University Pomona), and both Auto Dealer Scams (Auto Dealer Scam part I; Auto Dealer Scam part II) are possible examples of such cases [survivorship of the victims from previous violent crime is unknown/unspecified]. Case studies of this secondary mission of the NCIDP may not share some of the common elements of extreme violence seen in the primary mission cases. However, the elements involved in the identity crimes themselves, including the violence of those identity crimes, are generally little different. Only the stakes change - the stakes of the victims.