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Thread: LTCF Application Confidentiality
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April 20th, 2013, 08:13 AM #1
LTCF Application Confidentiality
Those of us who have been here a while know full well that LTCF application information is confidential in nature (Section 6111(i) of the Uniform Firearms Act).
Well, a Northampton County Deputy Sheriff is being prosecuted because he divulged such info.
http://www.mcall.com/news/breaking/m...,5664404.story
A Northampton County deputy sheriff was charged Thursday with illegally providing a confidential firearms permit application to a West Easton councilwoman, a leak that has captured widespread attention in the local blogosphere.
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April 20th, 2013, 10:04 AM #2
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Be surprised, be very surprised.
Here's the docket sheet: http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketS...R-0000122-2013
My guess is that the charge will be downgraded to something insignificant
he'll be reinstated with back pay and things will get back to normal.
I wonder though how many times this info is compromised and the applicant never knows about it?
Shouldn't the council woman also be charged with illegal dissemination of the info?
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April 20th, 2013, 10:10 AM #3
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This was not about checking references, this was political cronyism at it's finest. They wanted to use that information against the person that they didn't like.
Rules are written in the stone,
Break the rules and you get no bones,
all you get is ridicule, laughter,
and a trip to the house of pain.
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April 20th, 2013, 10:26 AM #4
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IANAL. I don't give legal advice. I'm only stating my OPINION.
(Did I really need to say that on an Internet forum? LOL)
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April 20th, 2013, 04:56 PM #5Banned
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April 21st, 2013, 12:37 AM #6
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It wasn't illegal for her to receive the information; it was illegal for the deputy to give it to her.
Information that is protected by law is just that, protected and anyone using illegally obtained information whether it is for political or monetary gain still posses the illegally obtained information. They should be prosecuted to fullest extent of the law.Corruption is the default behavior of government officials. JPC
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April 23rd, 2013, 07:43 AM #7Senior Member
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Re: LTCF Application Confidentiality
Information is different than physical property.. For one thing, their is no way to actually take information back (Other than a "Men in Black" memory nuralizer(sp))..
Generally speaking, the New York Times Co. v. United States (The Pentagon Papers case) prevents prosecution (assuming no prior conspiracy between the thief and the recipient to steal the information) of people for merely receiving information if their wasn't a preexisting legal relationship..
Most recent example, PVT Bradley Manning had signed a "non-disclosure agreement" with the U.S. Gov't which made him criminally liable for unauthorized disclosure of classified info. Wikileaks, however, did not sign an NDA and therefore wasn't bound by that law. Therefore PVT Manning gets to go to jail, but Wikileaks is free to publish anything they were sent.
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