OFF THE WIRE
Who needs Russian hackers when you have politically-motivated bureaucrats at the California Department of Justice?
The identity and personal information of thousands of California gun
owners was “inadvertently” released under a bungled records disclosure
by the DOJ. Name, home address, drivers license, and a variety of other
confidential and private information was released.
Worse, the incident occurred in mid October of 2016 but the victims
of the identity breach were not notified until the last few days of
December. The letter below has been sent from the DOJ and is now
landing in the victim’s mail boxes.
Gun owners are already nervous about registry requirements being
misused by government to target gun owners. The inadvertent release now
gives gun owners even more reason to be worried.
Some anti-gun groups target gun owners for harassment, criminals may
use the information to steal guns, or target homes without guns for
burglary or worse.
“All Californians should be outraged that our state department of
Justice has failed to keep this information private and this should
serve as the evidence that you simply cannot trust this bureaucracy with
a public registry,” said Carl DeMaio when he broke the story on his
show.
Mainstream media made a big deal about the Office of Personnel Management security breach in