Posted on 06/13/2006 12:24:58 AM PDT by neverdem
Associated Press
ALBANY, N.Y. Governor Pataki is proposing legislation that would keep personal information on sportsmen's licenses from being disclosed to the public.
Pataki says the law would protect the privacy of people whose personal information is attached to the hundreds of thousands of hunting, fishing and trapping licenses issued each year by the state Department of Environmental Conservation.
The Pataki administration and the Democrat-controlled state Assembly have been fighting over access to the information. A state judge sided last year with the D-E-C, which decided in 2004 that releasing the data under the state Freedom of Information Law was an "unwarranted invasion of personal privacy."
The D-E-C database includes a license holder's driver's license number, e-mail address and any military information.
The Assembly said it wanted the names so lawmakers could contact constituents to let them know about changes in regulations involving hunters.
But sportsmen's groups said releasing names and other information would clear the way for gun control and animal rights groups to also get the information.
ROTFLMAO, they have a bridge for sale too. It's better late than never, but this should have begun when the licenses started to be computer generated.
Yeah they only want the information so PETA can know whose homes to blow whistles in front of.
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I don't know about this... Has the governor asked Mike Bloomberg's permission? Seems to me the Mayor of NYC won't like this at all and won't allow the governor to do it.
The Democrats just want to violate the privacy of gun owners. Probably the same leftists who, in the name of "privacy," don't want parents to know about the convicted child molester living down the street are eager to let PETA know where the hunters are.
Military information for a fishing license? Do vets get a discount?
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I bet it is to determine who is merely armed and who is armed and dangerous.
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