[Greg Hainsworth]

Totally agree.

I went through the FIRST website to find nearby FTC/FLL teams to partner with and hopefully form some lines of communication. No contact information (sometimes not even a school name) available on the website. I did my best sluething and called a few people only to find out that the teams are inactive and no one knows anything about them.

I went to FIRST to ask for help in identifying which teams were active and which were not. I got a form response back basically telling me to go through the website to look up teams... which was where I started. I couldn't even get a list of team numbers that were active in the last 12 months.

Not every team has a website (FLL and FTC teams seldom have that).
I know there might be privacy concerns but even passing my contact information through to them would have been sufficient for me. Hard for me to unite with the FIRST teams around me without support from HQ, and they hold all the information.