Might be abuse of power. Looks like they are investigating it. I would tend to doubt that anyone on Obama's team is going to be going through the Children's Welfare and the local police department though. Those seem more likely that they would just be curious people looking stuff up since they had access. I seem to recall earlier this year a number of stories about passport agency flunkies routinely looking into the files of famous people and politicians. Obama, McCain and Clinton were all accessed as I recall and it seems to have just been people snooping cause they could.
The AG office though is more worrisome. I can certainly see the potential for abuse of power there. Though later in the article they say: "Brindisi later said investigators have confirmed that Wurzelbacher's information was not accessed within the attorney general's office. She declined to provide details. The office's test accounts are shared with and used by other law enforcement-related agencies, she said." Sounds like it probably isn't the AG's office and if it is a test account, I'd bet that it is a techie in one of the departments. So probably just gawking as well, but it certainly deserves follow up and discipline/prosecution depending on what they find. Judah On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:30 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abuse of power? > > http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/10/24/joe.html?sid=101 > > "State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement > computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal > information about "Joe the Plumber." > > Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher became part of the national political lexicon > Oct. 15 when Republican presidential candidate John McCain mentioned him > frequently during his final debate with Democrat Barack Obama. > > The 34-year-old from the Toledo suburb of Holland is held out by McCain as > an example of an American who would be harmed by Obama's tax proposals. > > Public records requested by The Dispatch disclose that information on > Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from > the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the > debate. > > Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office > of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support > Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276471 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
