Online SSNs
From the Virginia Watchdog (www.thevirginiawatchdog.com):
They [Our General Assembly Members] have introduced two bills again this year
which will take away MY First Amendment rights.
HB 633 and SB 133 I believe the numbers are. They are trying to stop me
from publishing SSN which appear on PUBLIC RECORDS that the Clerks hold.
So since legislation failed last year and the year before because it
wouldn't pass constitutional muster, then Houck and Joe May are trying
again.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=081&typ=bil&val=sb133 Set t
heard in subcommittee Feb 4th and I can't even be there.
http://leg1.state.va.us/cgi-bin/legp504.exe?ses=081&typ=bil&val=hb633 Set
to be heard Jan 31.
These bill would make it okay for a "state agency" to publish SSNs but not
ME!
They should be trying to stop those idiot Clerks from doing it.
By the way, legislation was put in last year that would have mandated that
all Clerks redact SSNs from online records by July 1, 2010. But I only
discovered in Sept that there was an ENACTMENT clause which basically killed
that. So that is out the window and what came out of the bill instead was
just permissive mush allowing clerks to publish the SSNs instead of removing
them. AND most legislators think (like me) that it passed. Boy was I
fooled.
There is NO DATE for clerks to remove SSNs. There is no law mandating that
they remove SSNs.
But if the two bills pass then I can't publish a PUBLIC record with a SSN on
it, but the CLERKS CAN!!!!!!