Virginia apparently is a state made up of moronic legislators. When Betty Ostergren, otherwise known as the "
Virginia Watchdog" and on of my
personal heroes, started posting social security numbers and other private data about state senators, she turned a few heads.
She got the information from the state's own public records websites where the senators were quick to pull some strings to get
their information off the sites, but Betty refused to pull it off hers until they fixed the system that left all the other less-connected people vulnerable.
Their response was to draft a law for her specifically (what an honor!) that would make it illegal to disseminate any public records that contained Social Security numbers. Facing tens of thousands of dollars in fines, she was fortunately rescued by the Virginia ACLU who
filed a lawsuit on her behalf.
And the good news is that the right decision was reached and
the state of Virginia was told to eat crow.
The saddest and sickest part of the whole situation is that they violently attacked the person who publicized what they were doing wrong while they made no effort to fix the wrong she exposed. Reminds me of certain other
disgusting people…
(H/T to
slashdot for the link)
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