A crime committed against any of the wrong addresses could be the basis for a lawsuit against the Journal News and Gannett.
Or possibly the right addresses too. I think there have already been two such burglaries in the news.
This puts the lie to “it’s just public information” canard. Pre-internet, pre-computer, you had to walk down to the courthouse and at least had to pay for copies to be made, if they were advanced enough in that way that you didn’t have to copy them out of a ledger one at a time by hand. There is simply no way that a newspaper could have made a map of X-thousand dots that way.