This article leaves out the most important thing about this incident. The man who’s license plate was photographed and circulated via Social Media was a father who was innocently picking up his daughter after school during inclement weather with the following caption: “…citizen… observed a man possibly trying to coerce a young juvenile girl to get into his pickup.” EDSO could have gone to see the owner of the vehicle and make sure he hadn’t kidnapped anyone. Instead, what they did was publicize someone’s personally identifying information while suggesting he was committing a criminal act. We live in a vigilante society. What if the owner of the truck didn’t have the option of using the media to clear himself of wrongdoing? There were comments made after the EDSO post saying somebody should put bullets in his truck (and him), etc. There has been no retraction or apology written by the Sheriff’s department. By NOT publicly clearing Mr. Gatica’s name, they are leaving him open to retaliation for having done NOTHING wrong, and exposing him and his family to danger on an ongoing basis UNTIL the EDSO formally apologizes. By “formal apology” I mean in the newspaper, the television media AND on social media. Because now, every form of media has picked up on this (wrongful) story about a pickup owner who is a threat to young girls/women. If EDSO does not publicly apologize I hope Mr. Gatica files a lawsuit for endangering his life and his family’s lives due to their flagrant irresponsibility. EDSO’s comment after taking their post down was this: “When dealing with the circumstances we were faced with this past Friday, we will always error (sic) on the side of caution for the potential victim.” That means everyone is guilty until proven innocent, according to EDSO rules. I hope Mr. Gatica uses all of the legal recourse available against their misuse of power.