Posted on 10/29/2008 1:28:53 PM PDT by Publius804
Clerk Charged with Misconduct for Unlawfully Accessing Information on 'Joe the Plumber' A records clerk in Ohio has come under fire for accessing information on "Joe the Plumber" through a statewide database.
Cristina Corbin
FOXNews.com
A records clerk in Ohio has been charged with gross misconduct after she allegedly used a state database to access information on the man famously known as "Joe the Plumber," the Toledo police department confirmed to FOXNews.com.
Julie McConnell, a long-time records clerk with the department's investigative services bureau, allegedly used the database -- called the Law Enforcement Automated Data System or LEADS -- to access information on Joe Wurzelbacher.
Wurzelbacher, a 34-year-old Ohio man looking to buy a plumbing business, rose to political fame after questioning Barack Obama on his "spreading the wealth" remarks during an Oct. 12 rally in Holland, Ohio. He has since become a symbol for John McCain's campaign, which says Obama proposes to raise taxes on small businesses.
McConnell used the LEADS database to confirm Wurzelbacher's address at the request of a local television reporter, Toledo police Chief Mike Navarre told FOXNews.com.
"You can't use that database unless it was for law enforcement purposes," Navarre said.
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She’ll be the Whitehouse spokesperson if Obama is elected.
How much did she sell that information for?
Don’t tell me she did it out of ‘the goodness in her heart’. She benefited in some manner.
Who is the reporter?
This is one of those times I support a lawsuit. I hope he sues the “blank” out of them.
Not sure that she personally would have to benefit from this.
There are plenty of “0bama’s Volunteer Brownshirts” out there.
An interesting question would be “Who put her up to it?” Surely a clerk didn’t think of this all by herself.
Comrade McConnell just doing her duty.
Rotten little Dem operative.
Bad cess be upon her!
I guess she has never heard of the Privacy Act.
Someone may have gone through Julie McConnell’s trash. I wonder what that someone may have found.
I personally think this unethical access to personal info in databases happens all the time on private and public citizens by employees who have computer access to same, out of curiosity, as a favor for their friends, wanting to know about their neighbors, bribes, anything.
How do we have any guarantee or knowledge that is doesn't happen?
Stories like this do not give me hope that our government agencies follow through on promises of intent of proper use.
The ballot proposition passed by 62%.
-PJ
How about firing her a$$?
Also please ping me if this story appears on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, PBS.
I am sure that is all she did. I bet, she gets three days suspension with pay.
What was he saying at the end—”There was no ill intent here. She was trying to do someone a favor.”
The person who said this needs to be fired too!
Giving an address to a reporter is just a disciplinary action—They are crazy—There is definite intent here and this person should be fired!
Incidents like these (99.9% perpetrated by Dems) always take me back to the infamous recorded cellphone call from Newt Gingrich to another congressman. There is no way that dopey couple from FL recorded that conversation, regardless of what was reported. The question is, who really did it, or, more importantly, what government appratus was used to record that conversation? Chilling stuff, to be sure.
I worked for Social Security for about a year and if you accessed a file that you had no right to see you were fired and could possibly face criminal charges. It was zero tolerance policy unless it happened accidentally which was possible. This lady had intent and that is why she needs to be fired.
My husband said he thought Joe the Plumber was suing the people who did this to him, including this woman. Do you know if this is true? If it is, I’m like you. I definitely support a lawsuit in this situation.
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