New York Times: Dirty Laundry, Online for All To See. The clerk's office of Hamilton County, Ohio, has published a web site with a searchable database of court records, including civil and criminal cases, judgements, traffic citations, arrest warrants, bond postings, and more.
"We didn't realize we were walking into a privacy hornet's nest until after we were under way," said Mr. Cissell, who has received e-mail from people threatening to vote against him in the next election.
While the overall story is disturbing, I find it vaguely comforting that the greatest threat people can come up with is "Why, I'll... I'll... I'll vote against you!"
Posted by
Mark at 9/11/2002 12:42:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
