Giving someone's address to the police a crime?

TBagpuss

No, it is not a crime.
And your son is free to give his address to whomever he wants. The fact that it happens also to be their address is not relevant.

If they were concerned about you attacking them then the issue would be with other people telling *you* where they lived, not with you telling the police.

ThePants999

If giving the address to police was a crime, the police would have arrested you when you did it, right?

sal_III

How could one report a crime if giving the address to the police is crime by itself?
Ignore what they are saying, put the kettle on, sit back and relax.

Comms69

AdrianC wrote: »

There certainly are criminal aspects to GDPR breaches. They don't apply here, of course, but then there's no issue at all here...

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/data-protection-act-2018-criminal-offences

Ok fair enough, I mean the offences predominantly apply to obstruction of the ICO, not the breaches themselves.


However my initial statement was correct

[Deleted User]

Thank you. Apologies if wrong board. Thought might be better than families and relationships as related to address. Might have been wrong.

Son is coming home. Erm not happy. I should be understanding the family's point of view although I pointed out frightening him to death with false claims isn't clever. But I suspect I am going to have to deal with a lot of anger when he comes back. He's a bit easily suggestible. I shall have to hope he calms down. I've not gotten aggitated or said anything even slightly I shouldn't. Just trying to calm things down.

I was busy saying he and his gf need to go to counselling, get help with the issues, that I was sure they could turn this around and suddenly I was being accused of this crime. Or rather he was. Nightmare.

davidmcn

Did they clarify exactly what they thought the crime was? It's nonsense anyway.

[Deleted User]

Yep. My son giving me the address without their permission (so I could send an important letter there and a parcel later on). Me for giving the police the address.

Don't worry, I thought it was quite ridiculous and checked with police who say you can give them an address without it being a crime at all. As I thought.

He has left and is coming home but isn't really seeing this straight as yet but will cope.

jonnygee2

That's not quite true - GDPR.

GDPR only applies to organisations, not to individuals. There are no laws or regulations in the UK that cover individuals sharing other individuals details (and probably no law in any other country either, because it would be ridiculous)

davidmcn

deannatrois wrote: »

Yep. My son giving me the address without their permission (so I could send an important letter there and a parcel later on). Me for giving the police the address.

I meant what crime did they think those actions constituted? i.e. were they thinking of data protection or something else?

Cakeguts

There is something extremely wrong with this family. In a normal situation a visit from the police to check on a child would not be taken like this because the family in question would understand that you were worried about your son. The fact that they have reacted in the way that they have shows that a wellbeing check was needed because that family is not by any stretch of the imagination behaving in a normal way about this situation.



You took the correct action in this situation. Of course your son can give you their address if he is staying there or visiting them as he is a vulnerable person and if they didn't want him to give out their address they should not have allowed him to visit or stay there.



They sound very odd to me and really not the type of family that a vulnerable person should be visiting or staying with.