Ed Goppelt of Hallwatch has also asked me to forward the following on the
subject of name searches, which our listservs recently discussed.
Melani Lamond
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On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:12:52AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Cityhallwatch.org has a feature that apparently is supposed to let you
> see such data. (Look at property taxes for a block, click on the
> owner's name.) But whenever I've tried it, I'm asked for a password. I
> emailed the site owner to report it as a bug, but I didn't hear
> back. It would be a useful feature.
Melani, please post this to your listserv:
Personally, I feel Philadelphians should be able to search for
property by owner name over the Internet. Pittsburgh allows its
citizens to search for property by owner name. So does Montgomery
County. So why not Philadelphia?
Unfortunately, certain city officials, BRT Chairman David Glancey and
DA Lynne Abraham among others are dead set against it.
So for the time being at least, if you want to search for property by
owner name you will need to contact me for a hallwatch account. I
don't like running my site this way--it's a lot of extra work for me,
but the alternative would be not allowing *anybody* to access this
info.
If you think the public should have easy access to public information,
then tell the Mayor & City Council! You can do so here:
http://www.hallwatch.org/faxbank/namesearch
How do you get a hallwatch account? Go here:
http://www.hallwatch.org/register
Ed Goppelt 215-755-2215
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Ed Goppelt
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