State-run Safe at Home program still, unbelievably, largely little-known
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Duluth News Tribune Editorial Board |
7:00 am, Apr. 30, 2021
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Since 2007, nearly 12,000 Minnesotans have been protected from abusive exes, stalkers, and others who’d do them harm by an innovative and effective — but still, unbelievably, largely little-known — address-confidentiality program.
Called Safe at Home, the state-run program assigns anyone who feels vulnerable or unsafe an alternative and anonymous P.O. Box, keeping their real address out of public records. The program confidentially sends participants’ mail to their actual addresses. In addition to the mail-forwarding service, their legal-in-every-way P.O. Box addresses can be used instead of their actual addresses for everything from registering to vote and getting a driver’s license to applying for a passport.