The phone company has screwed up and made our address public.
Backstory:
We are foster parents for my niece. Her birth parents (my brother and his girlfriend) are major meth addicts.My brother is know to be very violent when he is strung out. About a month before we received my niece we moved in order to protect my family (DH and I have 2 boys). We have kept our address secret from the entire family in order to keep imy brother from getting it. I do not want him to get all strung out and decide he wants to take this baby.
Last night my mom was going through her phone bill. She didn't reconize our number so she did a reverse lookup. Not only did our name appear but our address and driving directions did also. I have called our phone company and had them correct the problem but now I am concerned. I have requested that superpages.com and whitepages.com remove my address but it can take up to 5 business days. I also do not know how many other sites like this are around.
I do not know what to do now. If at any time in the past year and a half my brother has looked up our address he could have gotten it. We can barely afford the place we live in now and moving is not an option. However I no longer feel totally safe from my brother.
I just want to call the phone company and scream at them for this potentionally dangerous mistake.