The only case of public urination -> sex offender which people can point to is Juan Matamoros. He claims this, but the actual case is too old to verify it, and we should not take his word for it.

Arrested in Massachusetts in 1986, charged with two counts of open and gross lewdness, sentenced to two years.

As of [0] lived in Florida, and was in jail for violating probation on a charge of cocaine possession with the intent to sell.

From the article: Paul Mishkin, the Boston lawyer who represented Matamoros in 1986, could not recall details of the case this week, but said it was clear the judge considered the incident very serious.

“He [Matamoros] told his side of the story to the judge, but clearly there was evidence that made the judge disagree,” said Mishkin. “A two-year sentence in this incident is a fairly severe sentence. You’d have to think there’s evidence to support that.”

[0] https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2007/03/21/long-ago-charge-t...

Things are changing quickly. Some users are being allowed only 3rd party age verification.

https://piunikaweb.com/2026/02/12/discord-uk-age-verificatio...

There are sites for searching for your (or anyone else's) publicly revealed information, but the one free one I knew of was forced offline.

Downloading the datasets--there are so many with so few options to obtain them. The mega-compilations likely won't include everything, either, like your license plate numbers or all your compromised addresses, nor the site from which hackers stole it.

So basically don't bother. If you want the same experience, open up notepad, HIBP, and your password manager, and make a little doxx file on yourself, in CSV or JSON.

Benedict became notable because of her death; Biographies of Living Persons has a privacy section that gives reasoning. These reasons, e.g. identity theft, complaint from the person, harassment, can not apply to a deceased person.

News articles did cover Benedict under the name Dagny.

As far as policies go, this page should be titled "Suicide of Nex Benedict" according to this policy [0], yet the talk on that subject ended with "closed with no consensus to move." [1]

This does speak to the selective application and selective enforcement of policies on Wikipedia. But I was most concerned to learn about how scrubbing the histories of pages is official policy itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Choosing_article_tit...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Death_of_Nex_Benedict/Arc...

The page is protected, the general public can't edit it.

There was already discussion on the talk page, "Should Nex's given name be included?" with consensus of "no." That discussion was archived, but you can see it here [0].

From what I can see, the word "Dagny" has been retroactively redacted from all history of the page and its talk page.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Death_of_Nex...