The McHenry Lakeland DMZ Chronicles of the Mansons

Welcome to the Chronicles of 

The McHenry "Manson Family"

Everything on this page is published with express permission of the author.  No information on this site is private or confidential.  Opinions expressed in Steve Manson's letters do not reflect the opinions or views of the authors of this page.  This page is used to raise awareness of mental health, self-defense, child grooming, human trafficking, and keeping communities safe from the toxicity perpetuated by the prison system.  Any likenesses to names or faces found to be offensive are entirely coincidental, or protected free speech because it is public information and verifiable truth.  The statements in this document are not to be taken as accusations, hearsay, deceit, harassment, or anything but protected free speech of an educational and biographical nature.  None of this document is intended to distress, defame, harass, discredit, or promote hearsay about any individuals.  The purpose of this document is to shed light on truth to keep the story from being swept under the rug, as requested by Joanne Manson.

Everything on this site is a work in progress.  Please bare with us while documents are sorted, sources are verified, and proper legal procedure is pursued so as not to disclose anything which poses a risk to victims/survivors of the undue grief begotten by the McHenry's own Manson Family Circus.  As well as anything which violates the privacy rights of this man who relentlessly violates other people's rights.  If you have suggestions, contributions, media, or corrections please submit feedback to the email at the bottom of this page, thank you!

McHenry's Own Mansons,

Steve McManson Sr. for Short

Mr. Manson is a man who was convicted of a number of felonies who served time at Menard CC, among many other correctional facilities.  He was sentenced twice what he served, but served ten years in prison for his fifth DUI.  However, he admits in his own letters that he is a deeply damaged and disturbed individual.  Despite years of incarceration, he remains undomesticated, with a tendency to act uncivil toward people who upset him, and a self-proclaimed intolerance for authority.

A Summary Timeline:

Steve Manson's Relentless Requests:

Steve Manson

(Steve Manson Sr.)

 sent hundreds of letters from prison, an overwhelming amount.  The few letters sent in reply were returned by being tsunami'd by the media he submitted.  Besides the mountain of letters was also checks or money orders (which were given to Joanne Manson), disgusting pornographic images (which were destroyed), and random moody diatribes.  His former neighbors criticized him for his violently erratic behavior and said he might stop being "abused" so much if he cooperated a little.  Steve in turn wrote that he wanted to "piss off those fuckers until they move me through every correctional facility in the state!" Fully intending on giving his captors the hardest time he could muster.

Steve's Mother and The Origin of This "Blog" Effort

While Steve was in Prison his mother, Joanne, had to take care of the family home and the massive mess he left behind.  She employed the neighbor's children to do yard work once in a while, and they helped her clean out the garage of all the things Steve had left in there.  One editor of this blog still has the bicycle given to him twelve years prior.  After remodeling some, moving out, and renting the house to in-laws, Joanne Manson began receiving letters from Steve, demanding she produce an autobiographical web publication to "make him famous" for alleged abuse he suffered at Menard.  This is where the editors of this blog come in, as we were specifically hired and employed to publish anything we can find that will promote True aspects of Steve's life story.  Not only was permission given, but we were explicitly instructed before Joanne died to get this word out there, to not falsify anything, and to only expand on real events pertaining to Steve and his son's life.  

Steve's grandmother, Marie, died at the age of 101, locked in a room, completely isolated from all of her family, and all of her savings and income used up by Steve.  Instead of allowing professionals to care for his grandmother in failing health, Steve took it upon himself to do so.  Subjecting his son's wife children to the trauma of caring for her and watching her die has been a 'bonding experience' for their new family.  It appears a possibility that nobody but Steve and his son got any inheritance after completely alienating their entire family from her.

It is alleged that Steve Manson may have even falsified documents to re-write his mother's will [7] by effectively holding her hostage while she was afflicted with cancers affecting her brain.  By changing the will while she was of unsound mind, all of Joanne Manson's siblings, children, and grandchildren were explicitly omitted from any inheritance.  His sister, who was formerly executor of his mother's estate, was omitted entirely.  There was at least one investigation and criminal case regarding the illegal hijacking of Joanne Manson's estate, her credit cards, her bank accounts, material possessions, etc., but details have been intentionally obfuscated by the perpetrators to avoid accountability.  Due to constant harassment and misinformation, the entire family appears oblivious to the full extent they've been possibly robbed.  Both Joanne and her Mother died isolated, alienated, and rejected by all of their family except Steve due to rumors and immoral actions allegedly done by him and his son.  Before Steve left prison, his sister was executor of his mother's estate and his brother was to inherit property because Steven Jr. can't live near child care facilities—after he left prison, he ended up with everything.  The property continues to be decimated, neighbors report mouse infestations due to how unsavory conditions have gotten in and around the area due to the accumulation of garbage.

Steve and his son are proud political "anti-vaxxers", even boasting a tall "Fuck Joe Biden and Fuck You for Voting for Him" flag in their Antioch yard for a time. Joanne died of complications brought on by COVID-19, just days before she was due to get cancer treatment.  Her mother had beaten COVID at least 3 times before succumbing to natural causes in a very unnatural environment.

Steven Junior

It is publicly known and publicly available information that Steven M. Manson, "Steve Jr." is the son of Steven L. Manson and he is a registered child predator and convicted child sex predator who was sentenced to twenty years in prison, but served ten years for several crimes.  Crimes including the rape of a minor, and forced sexual favors from another woman.  

Steven Jr. currently claims to take care of his wife's two children by doing scrap work to get money under the table while still receiving public assistance(his business cards are available).  He has driven a wedge between his wife and her family, testifying against his mother-in-law when she stopped by to give her daughter her father's ashes.  He specifically finds the line of work where he is able to drive around to stalk children.  Having spent nights out until 2a.m., until he got a revoked license, and drove at least 29mph over the speed limit, forcing him to use a child as his chauffer.  They've bragged about stealing anything they can out of people's lawns, as well as from the garbage company, but no proof has come up yet beyond complains from people whose possessions have already been scrapped.  According to his public prison profile he has a white supremacist tattoo, and a nazi tattoo, a confederate skull, nazi 'SS' lightning bolts, and several other tattoos. 

One charge Steve Jr. went to prison for was the rape of a thirteen year old girl who he manipulated into doing everything he asked, during, and after.  By using the thirteen year old girl's infatuation with him as a 20-year-old man he created insurmountable friction within her family.  With calculated antagonism, the Manson family destroyed the victim's family, inflicting irreparable psychological damage.  After going to prison, while convicted of being a child sex predator and serving time in prison, and working around the system in place to prevent manipulation of a victim, Steve Jr.'s victim was continuously manipulated.  

With contact by proxy, and other methods of circumventing procedure in place to protect victims from being manipulated by their rapists, Steven Jr. remained in contact with his victim as she grew up.  Eventually Steven Jr. coerced her into having the court relinquish her automatic order of protection when she turned eighteen.  The warden still refused to allow visitation of a predator with his victim.  In order to overrule the relinquished protection, the judge ordered visitation block.  

Steve Jr.'s Mother, Karen T., who worked as a correctional officer at the local department of corrections at the time, took the victim across state lines to a servicer in Missouri who was willing to do an over-the-phone wedding to Steve Jr.  Being wedded to his victim, he was then able to control her life entirely from prison. She eventually divorced him.

Steve Jr. moved to Antioch and it is documented and well known in several recordings and documents, texts, emails, police reports, that he allegedly harasses all his neighbors, passerbys, and anyone he can in the community, even screaming racial slurs at children.  He intentionally plays his music loud to antagonize anyone in earshot.

Steve Jr's Wife's two children are frequently under the "care" of people described by their own family as "criminal monsters" who have a tendency to manipulate and groom whoever they can.  He testified in court that the mother does not live at the same address as the small child he is currently grooming, while also reporting to DCSF that she does live there, because otherwise it would mean the child is left alone in the care of a person with a history as a violent felon.  

It is alleged that Steve uses the elder daughter to drive him from place to place, manipulating her by screaming at her and rewarding her.  It is not an exaggeration to say it is textbook grooming.  In fact, the actions are textbook psychological manipulation tactics typically used by people with manipulative personality disorders.  Steve uses the children in order to get Housing assistance, LIHEAP, food stamps, donations, and to manipulate the police by telling them what to say to them.  Having been accused of allegedly being sexually inappropriate with his own blood family member, there is no telling what Steve Sr. is capable of.  Besides that he raised his own son to commit such heinous acts of cruelty against humanity as a convicted child sex offender, and child sex predator.

Sex Offenders have developed an extralegal scheme used to trick law enforcement, with moving in one address while claiming to live at another, using a third to avoid legal accountability.  In Steven Jr's case this involves petitioning the court to allow him to move to a community or area outside of the state where sex offenders already live, reporting to law enforcement that he is actually residing at a Hotel or other short-term residency, and then residing in the actual property or home that you live in.  Steven M. Manson has the benefit of his father's property as a fourth venue with which to do business out of, under an alias.  The crime potential is exponential to how many places a registered sex offender can claim to reside.  (Please talk to your lawmakers about this, this is a serious epidemic plaguing America, and it means the nation's children are not safe.  This information is public in order to keep you and your loved ones safe from malicious predators like these.)  

Since being released from Parole, Steven Jr has been involved in several civil, criminal, and traffic cases: 

McHenry County:

2022 CF 170 (Johnsburg/ 2 theft charges/stole from dying grandma)

2022 CF 189 (McHenry/ 8 theft charges/stole from dying grandma)

2023 TR 4969 (McH county / seat belt violation)

2023 TR 5236 (spring grove / driving 21-25 above)

2023 MT 1083 (McHenry/revoked and speeding 26-35 above)

2023 CF 767 (Lakewood/6 counts involving accident with injury)

Lake County:

22 CM 332                  3-28-22              (Criminal damage)

22 MT 4925               9-16-22              (Major traffic)

22 CM 1629               12-14-22            (disorderly conduct)

22 OV 1232                12-28-22            (Open Burning)

23 CH 40                     3-6-23               ( Chancery/Injuction)

23 OV 507                  5-30-23           (   Open Burning)

23 OV 642                  7-14-23             ( Open Burning (impersonating father @ son’s residence)

23 OP 1698                8-2-23                (SNCO)

Steve's Ex-Wife and Steve Jr's First Wife

Steve's ex-wife worked as a correctional officer for the McHenry department of corrections.  Steven Jr. married his first wife by proxy through this woman.  When it was not legally allowed to visitation because she was a rape victim as a minor who was groomed, it was Steve's ex-wife who intervened by driving the victim out of state and convincing her to marry Steven Jr. over the phone while he was in prison for raping her when she was 13.  

The Mansons continues to harass, stalk, and attack her online.  On February 1st, Steven L. Manson, with the alias "Mark Walker" slandered her with phone calls, online postings, and other means of denigrating her character in attempt to get her fired.

Steve's Grandmother

Steve's grandmother, Marie, lived to be 101 years old—that is to say, she lived well and held on strong while her daughter cared for her.  When her daughter died of COVID-19, as Steve Manson consolidated control over her estate, she was left in her grandson's care, and didn't quite make it very long.  She suffered several bouts with COVID-19 as she was subject to the care of anti-vaxxers who live very hectically and uncleanly.  It is impossible to say she died peacefully while her grandson and great grandson waged war with everyone around them.

Steve's Grandmother, Marie, age 101, Several Weeks Before Passing Away

The Manson Family Still Seems Dangerous

As soon as they were let off parole, the Manson family stopped pretending to be polite (they are admittedly not good actors either though, the ruckus they caused before this point is hard to overstate, with several court cases on record for inappropriate and uncivil behavior).  They set illegal fires, burn chemicals, burn tall flames, and have set fires to the side of their neighbor's house.  Allegedly they have set fire to their garage in Antioch for insurance purposes, allegedly set fire to a McHenry motorcycle, and a family member's vehicle.  The insurance payout probably even enabled them to pursue more adventurous misadventures.

Together, the family apparently deceived Buss Ford Lincoln Mercury of McHenry into loaning them a truck, with which they allow Steve, with a revoked license, and his teenaged granddaughter in-law to drive.  They've allegedly been in multiple hit and run accidents, even resorting to using a spare tire after destroying the right rear tire of their white F150.  The damage to the vehicle did not stop them from towing a trailer and overloading frequently.  The damage done by them in the vehicle has yet to be fully reported by the victims of property damage in their alleged hit-and-runs.

It appears somebody associated with Steven M. Manson's wife has been spreading fliers to raise awareness of their criminal escapades.  This is legal disclosure of information as it is criminal to hide or fail to disclose felony charges or sexual offender status when asked.  

On Easter of 2023 Steve Jr. threatened his wife, saying "you're gonna die", and Steve threatened to abduct her children, saying "you'll never get those kids".  Jr's wife screamed her daughter's name and said to call the cops.  Steve screamed back "go ahead and call the cops" and the police were called by concerned neighbors.  The cops emboldened them more than they helped the situation at all.  Steve told them to get off his property and they  obliged, permitting him to abduct children he has no blood relation to on Easter while his daughter in law fled the scene.  They continue to threaten and harass their neighbors.  

They spent all of Autism awareness month specifically targeting autistic people to terrorize and bully, seemingly just to promote suffering, using flood lights, loud music, banging, clanging, encouraging dog barking, screaming, and threatening(see the youtube playlist yourself).  Besides banging, screaming, clashing, and acting obnoxious in their front yard, they have high-intensity halogen lights they face toward the windows of autistic neighbors.  The police are unequipped to deal with them, by sidestepping the law and lying to the police they never get caught. Criminals are too slick to be caught in the act of violating the basic human rights of everyone around them; the guilty don't feel guilty, they learn not to.

In between filing frivolous SNCO orders against the family of Steve's wife, Steve Jr. made a straw purchase of several firearms.  Since then several people have been threatened with malicious remarks telling people such as his neighbor "you won't know if it's a fake gun until it's too late when I come over", very typically brandishing or pretending to be armed.

On June 22nd Steve Manson was arrested for driving on a revoked license as he is frequently wont to do.  In attempt to obstruct the towing of the vehicle, the arrest, and efforts of the officers Amber N. Manson screamed in their faces, drove recklessly, instructed her child to flee, and was arrested after a few moments of struggle and resisting.  Their time away from their house has been the only peace the Lakeland neighborhood has known since Mr. Manson's release.  

The peace was short lived upon Mr Manson's return, as he blared incredibly loud music, lights, noises, and pacing around his yard like a violent primal being whenever he is seen.  Aggressing, threatening, menacing, harassing, and antagonizing everyone who falls in his gaze.

Antagonizing the Neighbors

(A sign taped the to the front door of the home of Jennifer McLegggan, who is Black and says she fears for her life due to racial animus in her neighborhood, July 13, 2020, in Valley Stream, N.Y.)

Steve and his Son have a habit of annoying people for fun.  Misery begets misery.  If people walk by they scream "what the fuck are you looking at?", "Bitch", "Cunt", "Cocksucker", a number of racist slurs not to be repeated, and whatever else they come up with in their hatred.  They are very easily provoked and have a propensity to utter obscenities just to get under people's skin whenever they can, regardless of whether children are present.  If they know they're being recorded, they instigate and escalate conflict in order to blame the victim in order to get away with their belligerence.

February 15th, the Manson family had a large bonfire against city ordinances and police advised them to reduce the fire size or be careful.  Steve then went to his porch and screamed for several minutes "hey, yo-you neighbors are a bunch of bitch ass cocksuckers!! I know it was you!!".  

On April 5th, their next door neighbor asked them to please quiet their dog, or bring their dog inside.  The incessant barking has become unbearable for everyone in the neighborhood.  

Steve in turn apparently plotted revenge and on April 8th set a fire next to their house to seemingly smoke them out.  Steve, Steve Jr, and Amber stood in front of their drive way and mocked them, laughing and cussing up a storm.  The daughter of the renter of the home came out and pleaded "this isn't even my house! Please stop!"  Steve responded "fuck you", "cunt", "shut the fuck up!" "Skank!", etc., and they laughed, calling her a number of vulgar names.  Outnumbered by thugs, the neighbor woman retreated back inside, trying to de-escalate the conflict. 

Shortly after this, he stalked his neighbor's mailbox, found the names of the residents of his next door neighbors and learned where they live.  He hired Althoff Industries to do water plumbing work in his house.  He then cancelled his check, and complained trying to get his neighbor fired by claiming it was him who came over and did some kind of scab work.  Despite never having set foot inside the Manson residence the neighbor had to explain himself to his boss.  This marked the beginning of Steve Manson's attack on his next door neighbors

On April 9th, Easter Sunday, Steve Jr. argued with his wife in front of their home, and this went on for several minutes until it culminated into screaming, and him saying "You're gonna die! You're gonna die!" she screamed to her youngest daughter 'call the police!', Steve Sr. said "go ahead and call!  You'll never get those kids!"  Concerned neighbors called the police—because what the actual fuck else do you do when you hear someone screaming death threats and 'call the police!'?—Steve Jr. and his wife fled the scene after he coerced her into getting into the truck.  Steve Sr. continued to pace his yard and scream at his neighbor.  The neighbor in question is a disabled old woman on oxygen with grave's disease and other ailments, just trying to keep the peace.

When the police arrived they were verbally assaulted by Steve, he refused to answer questions, he screamed at them to get off his property when they were asking him to talk in the road, he called them names, and told them to "fuck off".  He threatened the neighbor who called the police while the police were their, texting her that some people need to "mined" their own business, and screaming ominous things all day.  

Hours later, the woman went to back out of her drive way with her autistic son to pick up a food order for her other son's birthday.  Steve approached the car and screamed in the face of her autistic son, at her, "fuck you you fucking cunt, why ain't I in jail? Huh?! Fuck you! You cunt!" and went on screaming until she pulled away.  She screamed back "molester", because of the way he conducts himself while fondling children.  Steve has gone out of his way to harass and intimidate her and her family every way he can since this day.  The police say "no crime was committed", protecting the people with a violent criminal history over the disabled people they harass and intimidate relentlessly.

During Autism Awareness Month of 2023, Steve decided to employ a 60,000+ lumen work light, paid for through public assistance (allegedly obtained through fraud, since public records indicate Steve makes $120,000 a year as a self-employed scrapper), to intimidate and harass everyone nearby, specifically against anyone sensitive to sensory as he learned some of his neighbors are.  

In just one year's time the Mansons have filed or have filed against them dozens of civil and criminal cases.  Of them, these are just the Protective Orders 2022 OP 127, 2022 OP 1182, 2022 OP 126, 2022 OP 1186, 2022 OP 959, 2023 OP 130, 2022 OP 1159, 2023 OP 1698, 2023 OP 538, 2023 OP 537,

After being asked to take the light down, and calling the police to ask him to take the light down, he employed a second light and called the police in retaliation on his neighbors, alleging they were hanging pictures in their own home and it bothered him.  The police had the neighbor's pictures taken down under threat, and protected the lights being kept on.  Police later came back and recanted their position about the neighbor's household's right to post whatever public-domain pictures they so choose, even in their windows.

On May 2nd, his neighbor, a disabled daughter of a Navy Officer refused to sit quiet, and put pictures of Steve in her window.  Steve retaliated, called the police, accused of her of a number of things, misrepresented the law, and filed a false police report in order to intimidate and harass the neighbor into taking the pictures down despite having the legal right to.  The cops went to her door, the door of a disabled woman on oxygen with a compromised immune system, and the officer they sent, Foley, said they had laryngitis—instead a contagion was passed on to the family, rendering the household bedsick for weeks.  It's possibly an attempt to murder and silence the oppressed, as is typical for these kinds of people if you look at history.  But without proof it cannot be ascertained the intention of sending a sick officer to a vulnerable person's house, to misrepresent the law and extort her through threats of legal recourse to remove pictures in her own home.  

On May 4th Steve Apparently went to court, and supposedly proved to the judge that he is not grooming children to harass his neighbor by coercing a teenager he has known for less than a year to drive him to court and commit perjury under oath for him.  For instance, the transcripts indicate she claimed the neighbors called him a "pedophile": some neighbors have responded when asked about this "we tend not to use that word, it implies he hasn't forsaken humanity, as if to say he has a soul and can desire, that he can be 'fond' of things.  But he seems tortured or numb, as if he has a soul at all.  We use the words 'child offender', or 'molester', because that's what they say he and his son did.  Besides you don't need to be sexual to violate a child's bodily autonomy the way he does.  And anybody who grooms a kid and thinks that's okay certainly doesn't have a soul, or has relinquished their humanity.  He was even charged with child endangerment almost two decades ago, it's a habit with a long history for him."

On May 8th Steve went straight to the neighbor's property line and walked along it across the driveway and road, taking pictures.  He screamed at their camera "I'm gonna sue you for every penny you don't have!!" in order to threaten and intimidate the family into keeping quiet and to stop giving evidence to police of his crimes.  Instead of being civil and just asking the authors of the youtube channel or blog to remove the content, he went straight to verbal harassment, intimidation, coercion, threats, stalking, peeping, and generally unwholesome behavior.  

On May 20th Steve paced in front of his neighbor's house with a camera, spying into their windows, peeping, taking pictures, and muttering to himself while his son watched his wife's child in the yard.  A friend of the neighbor stopped by on his motorcycle, and Steve paced in his yard with a camera until he tried to leave.  Steve yelled at him, trying to instigate a fight, and then jumped in the way of the motorcycle as the neighbor's friend tried to leave.  Steve continued to pace and take pictures, and one of the neighbor's returned home with takeout food.  Noticing Steve was recording, he put on a clown nose, and stuck out his tongue.  When Steve approached, making faces, shouting, and glaring menacingly, the neighbor yelled back at him while trying to get to his home door.  The woman of the household noticed, and went outside with a megaphone to try to ward Steve off, as he approached.  Steve continued to approach, with a bulge on his belt that appeared to be a holstered weapon.  He walked right up to the property line and stood there in a fighting stance for a moment, flexing as if to draw his weapon.  The neighbor's ran inside screaming 'drop the weapon, drop the weapon' but Steve just stood there, menacingly in attempt to intimidate.  Steve then called the police on his neighbors, in attempt to file a false police report, but was caught in his lies by video evidence of the entire event.  The cops approached the neighbor's and questioned the motorcyclist, and was pleasantly more empathetic to the people Steve was harassing instead of Steve this time.  The cartoonish brute false-flag idiocy was too much to stomach for law enforcement this time.

Near the end of May, Steven Jr. Orchestrated the production and distribution of several hundred slanderous fliers with the apparent intent to have vigilantes murder his neighbors and other people who have upset him or tried to expose his criminality.  

On June 8th the Manson family faced a motion for dismissal for an order or protection they fraudulently filed against the grandmother of the children they are grooming and keeping from their own mother.  Early in the morning they parked in front of their neighbor's house, blasting music so loud the walls were shaking, and began spraying poison on their neighbor's side of the street in order to harass, intimidate, and provoke them.  Particularly to antagonize the breathing of their disabled neighbor on oxygen.  Police were called, and the police emboldened them.  Officer Foley told them they can spray anything they want anywhere they want, so Steven M. Manson promised to poison the entire McHenry creek and waterways.  

On June 14th the Manson family staged a very disorganized protest against their neighbors.  They drove around the block several times, and around the neighborhood throwing hundreds of fliers out of their truck window.  Their goal was to jar and traumatize the disabled woman Steve had filed a fraudulent order of protection against one day prior to their court hearing date.  In response, several people showed up to counter-protest the Manson family, expose their lies, set the record straight about their slander, and display solidarity with victims of the Manson family.  

Over a thousand fliers were retrieved by friends and neighbors all over McHenry, several witnesses put forward reports, several videos of them distributing were put forward, social posts were made, public outcry was heard for weeks after the event, several complaints were made.  The damage cannot be overstated how horribly this has effected the community.  But McHenry Police did not take any action against the Manson criminals.  Steven M. Manson testified in court on June 29th that he took the pictures, orchestrated the creation and distribution of the first flier, therefore he is also unequivocally entirely responsible for the creation of the second flier and all criminal damages which have occurred because of it and all subsequent harassment.

Steven M. Manson admitted under oath that he is responsible for taking the pictures which appear on this flier.

His admittance is most curious, as it means he very explicitly admitted to stalking the childrens' parks, schools, daycares, beaches, and other places he is specifically prohibited from stalking due to his status as a registered child predator.

For More Information about the Flyers authored by Steve Manson please see here: https://medium.com/@McHenryDMZ/steve-manson-authored-slanderous-fliers-littered-across-mchenry-county-3e718033e6f5 

On June 29th Steve Manson appeared in court and complained that the youtube @McHenryDMZ had uploaded "Get a New Daddy" by The Whitest Kids U'Know, that this caused great pain and grief to him and the children he is grooming to commit perjury in court. He claims this so greatly offended him he filed for a second order of protection against the family.  Steve went into hiding on this day, repeatedly claiming he has moved to different locations: Kentucky, Arkansas, Southern Illinois, Wisconsin, etc.

On July 4th having not been seen for days, Steven Jr. began unloading scrap and dumping garbage at his father's residence.  Doing everything in their power to be an annoyance, they blasted music so loud the walls of their neighbor's homes across the street were vibrating and shaking.  McHenry PD cited them with a noise violation, during fireworks, because their music was so egregiously loud.  They turned the music back up and were told to turn it down yet again.  Public records indicate the police were called almost a dozen times by neighbors to complain about the public disturbance.  Late into midnight, Steven Jr. and his wife began screaming into their neighbor's security cameras, accusing them of absurd and heinous criminal actions, as well as of their own crimes, slandering everyone in their family as well as friends of the household's family.  

On July 11th, an SNCO was filed against Steven Jr. due to the relentless harassment, noise, lights, yelling at the neighbor's house, admitting he distributed heinous fliers, stalking children, disturbing the peace, public indecency, etc.  The hearing was scheduled for the same day as the hearing for his father's denied SNCO petition.

On July 12th (previously redacted for legal reasons) Steve's niece suddenly filed a frivolous petition for an SNCO against his neighbor.  Conveniently the day after an SNCO was filed against her cousin.  Her petition requested exactly what Steven Sr. had requested in his petition: the removal of this blog effort, removal of "signs" in the yard, and censorship of his neighbors.  Falsely characterizing the ongoing community damage as a one-on-one feud between two individuals rather than the onslaught by one man against the public it has been.  The financial, and psychic damage done by Steve's Niece to his neighbors is difficult to overstate.  Police warned the family not to go to any local medical facilities because her facebook profile claimed she was a nurse employed by the local hospital.  Permanent medical damage has resulted.

On July 16th Steven Jr. arrived at his father's residence, blasting music so loud the neighbor's walls were shaking.  He barraged the surrounding houses with lights, clanged his junk, and discreetly disposed of chemicals, allegedly illegal waste, and other contraband utilizing a large black trailer.

On July 26th Steven Jr. arrived again at his father's residence, not blasting music for a change, but furiously loading and unloading, mowing his father's lawn, and working strenuously on the house.  The trailer in his driveway has accumulated even more scrap.

On July 27th the hearing for Steven Manson's frivolous SNCO about being offended by a youtube page and attempting to blindside, disarm, and take away the constitutional rights of his neighbors was scheduled.    Steven Sr. appeared via Zoom, in the same room he was in when he claimed he was in Arkansas.  The Judge began to motion to default on Steven Jr.'s case because he was not apparent, but then Steven Sr. handed the Zoom camera to him surprising the respondent, petitioner, bailiff, judge, and anybody familiar with any of Steve's long list of frivolous SNCO petitions.  

Steven Sr. managed to confound everyone further by trying to explain it away as a simple misunderstanding.  He told the Judge he was not in Arkansas, but visiting his son for the day—on the same day, his son talked to the sheriff and told the Antioch sheriff that his father was in Springfield, while facebook ads for goods appearing at his McHenry residence pop up for sale in Crystal Lake.  While his son claimed to have been incapacitated by a medical procedure to do anything court related.  Later that day he arrived at his father's house, and worked strenuously, loading, and unloading, dumping garbage, etc.  There is an intentional web of obfuscation which has been manifested by the Manson clan to avoid accountability for criminality and uncivility.  

In the morning of August 2nd, a Black Ford SUV owned by Steven M. Manson caused an accident.  After failing to yield, improperly turning, speeding, (all while not supposed to be using a vehicle, having a Revoked License), the driver fled the scene in their black SUV.  The fire department responded, the victim was treated.  On or about August 8th, a warrant was filed for a felony hit and run.  [Steven Sr. then claimed in Court on August 31st that this vehicle was stolen from him, yet the accident occurred in Crystal Lake Illinois, not Yellville Arkansas, and the damaged Black SUV was later spotted at Steve Jr's residence in Antioch.]

On August 27th a neighbor of the Mansons took a bike ride.  Steve Jr and Amber Manson then stalked him throughout the neighborhood in their white Ford Truck, swerved toward him to intimidate him, and sped off before getting caught.  They threaten people's lives relentlessly.  They were seen at the corner of Willow and Pleasant Avenue in McHenry.  

Later that day they came back to taunt, harass, stalk, and intimidate the neighbor.  Dumping a huge amount of illegal refuse on the curb, as well as illegally throwing a rug into their neighbor's driveway.

(The cyclist struggled and failed to get a clear photo, resulting in this clumsy shot of their white truck fleeing)

On August 28th through the 30th the Manson family stalked the social media of their neighbors, and in so doing disliked several youtube videos, finally disclosing their gmail account information, I.P. address, physical address, GPS data, and general whereabouts to the McHenryDMZ youtubers as well as law enforcement, approximating their locations in Antioch, Crystal Lake, Rockford, and Springfield addresses via public google and social media account data.

On August 31st Steven L. Manson had a hearing for a frivolous SNCO filed against his neighbor for "posting on youtube" and having security cameras, "snitching" to police, and an elaborate mythological conspiracy involving several families and DCFS.  The petition was denied and the case was dismissed.

On September 6th Steve Jr. and Amber Manson arrived at Steve Sr.'s house, but fled immediately as a law enforcement officer then stopped by in attempt to serve legal papers.  The Mansons successfully deliberately evaded service again after lying to police several times to obfuscate their whereabouts.  

On September 8th Steve Jr. and Amber Manson arrived unloading garbage at Steve Sr.'s property.  They were acting incredibly suspicious, hung up tarps to hide what they were unloading, placed a christmas tree in front of their driveway.  With a history of theft, it is extremely likely all of it is stolen goods or contraband.

A neighbor left their house to do errands, and Steve Jr. sent his wife to stalk them, spy on them, and follow them to the grocery store.  She circled him twice in the parking lot, but immediately fled when she was discovered.

Amber Manson stalked her father in law's neighbor to the grocery store.  She is said to be armed and dangerous with a quick temper and total disregard for the law.

Steve Jr. then lit a huge dangerous fire in his back yard and a police officer arrived to inspect it.  The fire was about the size of a refrigerator and climbed as tall as the roof of Steve Sr.'s home.  After extinguishing the fire and the police officer leaving, Steve Jr. and his wife, Amber Manson, began blaring music from their truck again so loud that neighbor's floors and walls were vibrating.

On the morning of September 11'th Steve Jr. placed additional lights on top of his wife's car directed at his neighbor's home and property.  

During the week of September 17th, Steven M. Manson's home was emptied, the scrap was discarded at his father's property and he registered to move his address to a different county in order to obfuscate his criminality.  Now claiming to reside at a hotel instead of any of the properties he and his family owns.  Incidentally the hotel in question is losing business and facing serious complaints from guests.  

On September 19th a civil servant stopped in front of Steven L. Manson's home while Steven M. Manson and Amber N. Manson were hobbling about, sorting their scrap, and doing business at the address.  The civil servant attempted to serve them as Residents of the address, but they protested, threatened to sue, and discarded the papers, obstructing justice and avoiding service.  The civil servant confronted him and yelled back at him, matching his energy.  Seeing how unproductive the exchange was, the civil servant soon left the premises.

On September 20th the frivolous and deceitful SNCO filed by Steve's niece was vacated.  

On September 22nd, Steve and Amber Manson arrived at Steven L. Manson's property in a white ford truck which had no rust on it, they circled the property, broke into the home, wandered a bit, sorted scrap, moved their lights, and then left.  They later came back in a rusty white ford truck, circled the property, broke into the house again, seemingly lacking keys to enter filed a false police report accusing the supposed owner of the white ford truck, the civil servant, in the of damaging their property when he attempted to serve them with legal documents.  The police officer walked up and down the neighborhood seeking any information he could find on the civil servant who had arrived days prior.  

On October 21st Steven Jr. arrived at his father's property and did more unloading of junk, scrap, and inventory of goods, sometimes leaving to sell some and then return to unload, load, and shift more inventory.  He went out of his way to program his lights to turn on for an extra hour, now his offensive invasive lights turn on at 6:30p.m. instead of 7:30 p.m.  

On October 25th a conference for Chancery Court regarding Steven L. Manson's egregious use of his property to violate the sanctity of the community, long list of ordinance violations, civil complaints, infractions, illegal business ventures, tax evasion, fraud, charity fraud, theft, robbery, home invasion, stalking, harassment, violent threats, driving on a revoked license, and being a general nuisance to the neighborhood was scheduled.  By having his son use his own name as an alias on the predator registration database, he avoided service entirely and a summons was issued.  Steve continues to consciously, willingly, and knowingly avoid service time and time again.

On October 26th Steven Jr. appeared via Zoom from apparently a hospital despite being ordered to attend court in-person.  He quoted a stream of "Red Dead Redemption 2" of a person he is stalking and claimed he is possibly "dying of tuberculosis", coincidentally like Arthur Morgan, the 19th century-based fictional cowboy character.  The case was frivolously continued for his convenience at the expense of everyone involved.  Despite claiming to be too ill to attend court, within an hour he appeared across the street at his father's property, working hard, loading, unloading, making a ruckus, putting up signs, programming his lights to start earlier, and sorting inventory for his social media reselling.

On October 27th the Mansons arrived at Steven Sr's property again, blaring noise, throwing things, clanging, making a ruckus doing their typical loading and unloading for scrapping or claiming to be "moving to Arkansas" as they had been claiming since June while they bring load after load of appliances and other junk to dump at Sr's property.  Steven Jr. put a sign in the yard of his father's house intended to antagonize the neighbors.

On October 28th Steven Jr. arrived at his father's house and worked furiously to dismantle and remove his fence and load it into his truck.  Despite refusing service for the chancery papers, the Steve Mansons have worked tirelessly to obfuscate, hide, or address every complaint featured in the long list; one complaint being a fence in violation of ordinances—now mysteriously disappeared without a legal permit.  

The remains of the fence were seen at the property in Antioch which belongs to Steven Jr.  A large bonfire took place, and public records show the fire department responded to an out of control fire featuring treated (toxic-to-burn) wood.  

On November 5th Steven Jr. arrived at his father's property to load and unload things, blasting music incredibly loudly yet again.  For three weeks he had put his bins over his neighbor's property line, obstructing their driveway, and ultimately presenting a persistent illegal nuisance.  City ordinances and garbage company policy state the bins must not be visible to the public except on Garbage Day.  Steven Jr. intentionally waits until the garbage truck leaves and then brings garbage from out of town and other places, then puts the garbage out, gets tagged, then hides the tags and does it again.  His next door neighbor moved the bins slightly over because of this.  When Steven noticed, he raged violently screaming.  "touch my fucking bins again and I will fucking kill you you fucking bitch faggot!  You're a coward!  Touch my bins in front of me!"  He appeared drugged or drunken, and the police were called by the Marine Veteran neighbor next door.  

With a pocketful of excuses, Steven Manson was given all benefit of the doubt by McHenry police and they assisted him in obstructing his neighbor's driveway with garbage from out of town.

On November 6th Steven Jr. arrived at his father's house again, blasting music, making noise, clanging, making a ruckus supposedly loading and unloading for illegal scrapping business moving to Arkansas. At 7a.m. he called the police on his neighbor and he convinced the police to help him move his bins.  McHenry Police helped the registered child sex offender move his bins to obstruct the driveway of a Marine Veteran and his children.  The cop went so far as to warn them with threat of citation for bothering the swastika tattoo'd criminal who is not legally allowed to loiter within 500ft of this place. 

On November 7th Steven Jr. arrived with his wife, Amber Kennedy and Dezerae Kennedy at his father's house to apparently dump more garbage and to sell an appliance.  While unloading his trailer the disabled navy vet's daughter across the street was trying to talk to her friend so Steven Jr. began muttering all sorts of heinous threats while telling his wife's daughter to surveil and record them.  

Later a white truck arrived and waited for an hour before hauling a washing machine and leaving.  The Mansons scrapping business is still operational as of November 8th.  

Before they went to Prison...

In 2004 Steve tried to give his neighbor hardcore pornography for their thirteenth birthday in attempt to groom them, the kid was shook and refused to take any of it.  He had very frequently employed neighbor children to do work for him.  Often intoxicated at the time, he would offer to take neighbor kids for joy rides, show off his weapons collection, and get very close and friendly with children.  Firing potatoes at random houses from a potato gun.  At the same time, Steve was extremely hostile to anybody who got too close to him.  One time he had the neighbor kid wipe his hardrive clean and then Steve ripped it out of the computer and threw it into the drainage ditch for fear of getting caught for the crimes he was committing.

At one point pipe bombs were discovered and detonated on Joanne Manson's family property, where Steven still lives at.  

August 27th 2010

August 27th 2010

The McHenry bomb squad had to make a house call, and blockaded the neighborhood to incoming traffic in order to safely discharge the explosives.  "Whoever" planted the bombs was never discovered, however.  Common sense points to Steve, the guy who threatened to do so in the first place, but it's so unbelievable he never was found guilty of allegedly planting bombs on his own mother's property.

Not very tech-savvy, Steve once employed his neighbor to sell a broken icecream truck on ebay, claiming he was married to her to the customer.  When the icecream truck was delivered and immediately broke.  This led to the neighbor getting banned from the website entirely and disallowed from making a new account.  He later renovated an icecream truck in order to sell drugs out of it.  

They don't need drugs to act crazy, but they are known to allegedly indulge in a variety of different substances, legal or not—for a time they sold "Spice", the synthetic marijuana, wherever they could, until supplies ran out.  Having family who own and work for a restaurant in Crystal Lake, Steve was able to stock ice-cream for an alibi and use ice-cream trucks to sell drugs.  Typically he would sell to the same demographic as neighborhood children who want ice-cream, and offer teenagers dope and other things.  One incident involved him calling the police on young men who robbed him while doing so, but they in turn confessed they didn't steal money, but drugs from Mr. Manson and all parties involved were implicated in the criminal activity.

One of Steve's Icecream Trucks

Later he got into trouble with the law, was arrested several times and implicated in numerous crimes.  Steve had antagonized some local criminals at some point who then went to his house and confronted him.  When he went outside to fight them they beat him in the lawn with a baseball bat until he was immobile.  He has claimed to have suffered brain damage from the experience.  It's possible the trauma has intensified his impulse control and personality since the event, but he has been consistently into underground activities.  

Around 2006, Steven L. Manson was charged for repeatedly driving while intoxicated with a revoked license and sentenced to two years in prison.

While recklessly drunk driving, Steve ditched his truck over the drainage ditch in front of his mother's home.  He was later charge to serve 20 years for the incident as well as intimidation of an officer, throwing a tantrum over his son's incarceration for raping a 13 year old girl.

It has come to light that Steve has had orders of protection placed against him upon the revelation that he had sexually assaulted his blood relative and other women when they were under his care as children.  Alleged in these orders was sexual favors, drugging, coercion, violence, threats, harassment, threatening to deprive a mother of her children, threatening to plant drugs, sexual threats, homoerotic fantasies, and the list goes on.  

Due to his manipulative nature, his victims moved and changed addresses, the threat only became unsubstantiated when Steve stopped being able to stalk and harass his victim, thus the order(s) of protection were dismissed.  Steven continues to harass whoever he can as long as he can get away with it.  

Steve and Animals

Steve's dog, Wolf.  When Steve was in prison his mother and Sister had decided to have the dog put down because they could not manage taking care of him.  

Before going to Prison, Steve had a dog named Wolf which was a large breed German Shephard mix dog.  Wolf was somewhat friendly, but rather timid in nature.  Court documents of alleged abuse shed light on the possible tendency toward animal neglect Steve has toward animals.  He demonstrates an affection for his pets, possible genuine love to the best of his abilities, but he intentionally inflicts suffering in being ignorant of appropriate pet ownership, as is clearly demonstrated in videos.  Once Steve went on a joy ride under the influence and was sent to prison, Steve Manson's family was unable to care for Wolf and had him euthanized.

After leaving prison he attempted to adopt a dog everywhere he could, but was repeatedly denied.  He eventually adopted a German Shephard puppy, and let his would-be granddaughter in-law name it "Boy".  The dog was energetic and playful, but learned to bark excessively through deliberate encouragement in order to ward people.  Until being threatened with animal control, he was known to abuse his dogs when he believed they misbehaved.  He allegedly screams at them, and punishes them by leaving them outside for extended periods of time regardless of the weather.  

Steve also encourages distress to keep the dogs barking for extended periods of time in order to annoy anyone within listening range.  This lends to additional distress on the animals.  This goes on for all hours of the day unless the animal is too tired to bark.  It's extremely sad, knowing they have simple devices to train dogs not to bark unless an intruder is near, and so on.  There are so many proactive solutions he neglects intentionally to promote antagonism and escalate conflict.

Steve's Business Ventures

Steve's Siblings

Steven's brother Gary Manson was driven to suicide.  Seemingly by the combination of grief over the passing of his daughter and mother, and harassment following the siege of the Manson family household.  Steve celebrates his own brother's death, even saying he's "glad he is dead."  Allegedly he committed suicide, suspiciously immediately after his brother claims to have found out he worked as a police informant for the Crystal Lake police department.  The timing is interesting to say the least.

We will not go into details of Steve's sisters or their families because a great deal of effort has gone into defaming and harassing them to coerce them into complicity with Stevens' criminal actions as possible by Steve Manson.  If there are rumors about Steve Manson's siblings, they may have originated from Steve himself.  What is certain is that Steve has violated their human rights as much as he can get away with without getting caught, or by lying under oath in order to escape charges.  Let it be known that there exists testimony, witness reports, documents, letters written by Steve, and other evidence alleging Steve's sexual indecency toward women and children has been nothing short of barbaric.  

Previous images have been redacted and replaced with new scans provided by the circuit clerk.

It is legal to post information about public-record court documents online.[10]

(Image scans have been decreased in size for anonymity of victim petitioner)

Documents Obtained with permission from Katherine M. K.

Documents Obtained with permission from Katherine M. K.

An Order of Protection was granted against Steve filed by a family member and held in place for 5 years until they moved. The pages contain threats made by Steve to the lives of children.

When questioned about abusing his family member in court, Steve Manson swore under oath court: "that lying ***** don't know what she's talking about!  They threw that case out 'cos there ain't no evidence!  There ain't no evidence I ever did any of that to her!"
The fact remains: Abuse occurred, instigated by a Manson family member—Against a Manson family member, against the community, and against the court system.

At the same time, nobody has ever done more to enable, protect, and embolden Steve Manson than what his niece Katherine Manson has done for him, suing his neighbors, threatening their lives, letting Steve babysit her children, an alibi, censoring whistleblowers, and obstructing the constitutional rights of anyone who has ever gotten in the way of Steve Manson's crime sprees.  No one could ask for a better accomplice than Mr. Manson's niece.

It should also be noted that if his family had not enabled him, funded him, provided him resources, a home to stay, refusing to protect Steve's mother from Steve, and come forward with their allegations, then a long string of abuse, felonious crimes against humanity, deaths, and several rapes would not have happened.  The sister of one blog author would not have been drugged and raped by Steve.  Steve's abused could have been nipped in the bud decades ago, but his family chooses instead to sweep his abuse under the rug.  Even going so far as to sue contributors to this blog effort in order to deprive them of their first amendment rights, as well as attempting to disarm them in the face of violent threats from the Steves Manson.  While smeared by Steve and his heinous actions, still the entire family has yet to prove him wrong about them or that they are not entirely comprised of self-serving petite-bourgeoisie hatemongers akin to Charle's Manson's "Family".  Robbing the community, obfuscating the courts, and letting their demon kin run amok, stymieing every effort to expose the reality for what it is, trying instead to save imaginary face about the family trait of an inflated ego.

Steve Manson's Autobiographical letters from prison:  https://menardcc.blogspot.com/2019/12/my-true-story-at-menard-cc-to-date.html 

Youtube Playlist With Some Interactions With Steve:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvioTeZWVv4&list=PLKPeLWVgF1hJNdonODszlHdVofKWnPMZM

Manson Criminal Offenses Public Information:

Registered Sex Offender, Steven Jr.  https://isp.illinois.gov/Sor/Details/X19A1630 

Sex Offender Public Notice: https://lakecountygazette.com/stories/610070065 -steven-m-manson-living-in-antioch-a-registered-sex-offender-as-of-oct-26

News Release: https://www.shawlocal.com/2012/01/05/man-gets-same-sentence-as-father-20-years/acnsanq/

https://www.shawlocal.com/northwest-herald/2023/08/19/mchenry-county-felony-report-for-week-of-aug-6-12-2023/ 

Release information: https://mchenrytimes.com/stories/574867287-25-inmates-sentenced-in-mchenry-county-to-be-released-from-illinois-department-of-corrections-during-q1 

Charged 20 years for aggravated intimidation and DUI: https://mchenrycountyblog.com/2011/08/15/20-years-for-aggravated-intimidtion-and-dui-felonies/ 

Steve M. Manson's Public Record in IL Available, Search:
"Manson, Steven L"
and
"Manson, Steven M"

Lake County:
https://circuitclerk.lakecountyil.gov/publicAccess/html/common/index.xhtml 

McHenry County: 
https://caseinfo.mchenrycountyil.gov/pca 

Known Aliases:

Mark Walker - Steve Sr

Amber Manson - Steve's wife

Amber Kennedy - Steve's Wife

Gary Manson - Steve's Brother

Steven Lawrence Manson - Steve Sr/Jr

Steven Michael Manson - Steve Jr.

Contributors to This Blog:

August Dietzgen, John S. Turkin, J.H. Biegle, Jessica Arbunkle, John D Reed, Ybeunk Mainlander, Harry Reed, Kerry Fogle, Alexandra Eastdroop, Jeremiah Ritter, Amber Manson, the Actual Satan, Steven Manson, Dezerae K.,Qemal Stafa, Riley Loveshade, Emma Goldman, Kurt Boyle, Jan Nexhmije, Karen Taylor, Brianna Manson, Katherine Esser, Svetlana Pavlechenko, Sarah Schmidt, and Pensylvester McBlumpkin, No Relation.  

You can contact our team at   ybeunkmainlander@gmail.com

Permission to Publish Autobiographical Details about the Manson Family for the Educational Purpose of Raising Awareness Expressly Given by Joanne Manson, Rest in Peace. 

Definitions:

LEGALITY AND DEFINITIONS:

All information, pictures, video, media, and footage is provided for EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY.  No media contained within this playlist may be used to defame, harass, ridicule, or attack any individuals, their identities, or lifestyle.  Any names or information is publicly available, and not property to any private persons.  

DOMESTIC TERRORISM "is generally defined by law as involving criminal acts dangerous to human life on U.S. soil that appear intended to coerce a civilian population or influence or affect the conduct of government."  The intimidation of citizens, police officers, and household with the objective of manipulation, coercion, or to promote action or inaction among those members is the definition of DOMESTIC TERRORISM.  

PSYCHOPATH is generally defined by law as someone who is delusional, or experiencing a form of Psychosis not limited to: Groupthink, Mob-Mentality, Group Psychosis, Hallucinations, Ideological Delusions, etc.  

GROOMING the act of deliberately establishing a relationship with a child to prepare them for abuse.

PREDATOR a person who has been convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor as defined by the law.

CONSENT permission for something to happen or agreement to do something.  The law defines that a Minor does not have the developmental capacity to give consent, and this fact is inarguable.

RACISM Racism is prejudice or irrational hate against any nationality and/or the anti-scientific belief in the idea of various human populations, ethnicities, nationalities, and groups as separate "races" of the human species.

SUPREMACY-IDEOLOGY the belief that a certain group of people is superior to all others.

HARASSMENT the Law defines Harassment as: Unlawful violence, like assault or battery or stalking, OR. A credible threat of violence, AND. The violence or threats seriously scare, annoy, or harass someone and there is no valid reason for it.

INTIMIDATION an act or course of conduct directed at a specific person to cause that person to fear or apprehend fear.

MOLESTATION to make unwanted or improper sexual advances towards (someone), especially a child.

DRUG a medicine or other substance which has a physiological effect when ingested or otherwise introduced into the body.

It is against the law in several areas for someone with a felony conviction to not disclose the information that they have been convicted of a Felony if the question is raised as to whether they have a felony.

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Footnotes:

[7] The Will of Joanne M. Manson, Case File "2022WI000113"

[10] The disclosure of information “acquired from non-record sources – such as observation, office emails, discussions with co-workers and the ‘rumor mill’– does not violate the Privacy Act . . . even if the information disclosed is also contained in agency records.”  Lambert v. United States at *5 (quoting Cloonan, 768 F. Supp. 2d. at 164); Thompson v. BOP, No. 1:10-CV-00578-JOF, 2012 WL 13072105, at *5 (N.D. Ga. Jan. 20, 2012) (For “a disclosure to be covered by section 552a(b), there must have initially been a retrieval from the system of records which was at some point a source of the information.” (citations omitted)); Savage v. Geren, No. CV-08-S-2189-NE, 2010 WL 11519448, at *13 (N.D. Ala. Nov. 15, 2010) (“[T]he Privacy Act does not prohibit disclosure of information or knowledge obtained from other sources other than ‘records.’...In particular, it does not prevent federal employees or officials from talking – even gossiping – about anything of which they have non-record-based knowledge.” (citations omitted)). . .
. . . A plaintiff has the burden of demonstrating that a “disclosure” by the agency has occurred.  See, e.g., Askew v. United States, 680 F.2d 1206, 1209-11 (8th Cir. 1982); Zerilli v. Smith, 656 F.2d 705, 715-16 (D.C. Cir. 1981); Boyd v. United States, 932 F. Supp. 2d 830, 835 (S.D. Ohio 2013); cf. Hernandez v. Johnson, 514 F. App’x 492, 500 (5th Cir. 2013) (holding that “disclosure is not actionable because it identified [plaintiff] only by his first name and neither recipient knew who ‘Jaime’ was”); Luster v. Vilsack, 667 F.3d 1089, 1097-98 (10th Cir. 2011) (rejecting appellant’s contentions that “mere transmission of the documents to a fax machine at which unauthorized persons might have viewed the documents constitutes a prohibited disclosure” and that “the possibility that a record might be revealed to unauthorized readers by negligent or reckless transmission is sufficient to constitute a prohibited disclosure under the Act’”); Whyde v. Rockwell Int’l Corp., 101 F. App’x 997, 1000 (6th Cir. 2004) (“[T]he fact that [a company] somehow came into possession of documents that might have been included in plaintiff’s personnel file . . . gives rise only to a metaphysical doubt as to the existence of a genuine issue of material fact.”); Brown v. Snow, 94 F. App’x 369, 372 (7th Cir. 2004) (ruling that district court grant of summary judgment was proper where no evidence was found that record was disclosed, and stating that “burden is on the plaintiff at the summary judgment stage to come forward with specific evidence”); Lennon v. Rubin, 166 F.3d 6, 10-11 (1st Cir. 1999) (where agency employee testified that, despite memorandum indicating otherwise, she had disclosed information only within agency, and where plaintiff responded that whether his file was reviewed by other individuals is question of fact he “want[ed] decided by a fact finder, ‘not an affidavit,’” finding such “arguments misapprehend [plaintiff’s] burden at the summary judgment stage”); Russell v. Potter, No. 3:08-CV-2272, 2011 WL 1375165, at *9 (N.D. Tex. Mar. 4, 2011) (holding that plaintiff cannot prove disclosure violation where “the only agency involved, the Postal Service, received rather than ‘disclosed’ the information in question”); Collins v. FBI, No. 10-cv-03470, 2011 WL 1627025, at *7 (D.N.J. Apr. 28, 2011) (dismissing claim and stating that plaintiff’s “conclusory allegations” of unlawful disclosure, “without identifying or describing who acted against Plaintiff or what the person did, is insufficient”); Roggio v. FBI, No. 08-4991, 2009 WL 2460780, at *2 (D.N.J. Aug. 11, 2009) (concluding that plaintiffs “fail[ed] to allege sufficient facts supporting that the FBI, as opposed to some other law enforcement body, disclosed [one plaintiff’s] rap sheet” on the Internet, where plaintiffs “base[d] their allegation on . . . the mere fact that [a particular Internet] posting contained some expunged information”), reconsideration denied, No. 08-4991, 2009 WL 2634631 (D.N.J. Aug. 26, 2009); Walia v. Chertoff, No. 06-cv-6587, 2008 WL 5246014, at *11 (E.D.N.Y. Dec. 17, 2008) (concluding that plaintiff failed to make out prima facie case under subsection (b) of Privacy Act because plaintiff alleged merely that records were accessible to other individuals in office, rather than that they were actually disclosed); Buckles v. Indian Health Serv., 310 F. Supp. 2d 1060, 1068 (D.N.D. 2004) (finding that plaintiffs failed to “prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that IHS disclosed protected information” where plaintiffs did not “have personal knowledge that [the memorandum was disclosed]” and witnesses at trial denied disclosing or receiving memorandum); Meldrum v. USPS, No. 5:97CV1482, slip op. at 11 (N.D. Ohio Jan. 21, 1999) (finding lack of evidence that disclosure occurred where plaintiff alleged that, among other things, file had been left in unsecured file cabinet), aff’d per curiam, No. 99-3397, 2000 WL 1477495, at *2 (6th Cir. Sept. 25, 2000).  But cf. Speaker, 623 F.3d at 1386 (finding plaintiff’s complaint sufficient to survive summary judgment because he “need not prove his case on the pleadings” but rather “must merely provide enough factual material to raise a reasonable inference, and thus a plausible claim, that the [Ctrs. for Disease Control & Prevention] was the source of the disclosures”); Ciralsky v. CIA, 689 F. Supp. 2d 141, 156-57 (D.D.C. 2010) (concluding that plaintiff’s allegation of CIA disclosure to unidentified government officials, who were unrelated to handling of plaintiff’s case, was “not unacceptably vague” and need not include identities of alleged recipients for CIA to “understand Plaintiff’s charge”); Tolbert-Smith v. Chu, 714 F. Supp. 2d 37, 43 (D.D.C. 2010) (ruling that plaintiff had stated claim for relief under Privacy Act where plaintiff “pled that a member of [agency] management placed records referring and relating to her disability on a server accessible by other federal employees and members of the public”). (RETRIEVED FROM: https://www.justice.gov/opcl/overview-privacy-act-1974-2020-edition/disclosures-third-parties )