False assumptions on your part. Did the she willingly and personally provide a potential date with her address, or did she comply with a lawful demand, under duress? What were her choices? She really didn't have a choice, did she?
Now, perhaps you've never dealt with 'personal and private information' as part of your job. If you work in a hospital, you will get private and deeply personal information - can you use this for personal gain? Nope. How about running a credit card at Walmart and getting their address; then stalking your prey to their home? Nope. How about working with the airlines, and looking up the personal information of celebrities, then using that information to stalk them? Nope. In EVERY instance, getting fired is the least of your concerns, and take my word for it "you WILL be fired, on the spot". Additionally, the company may decide to press charges for damage to their reputation, for you abuse of their system. Why should cops be treated any differently?
Now, if she handed him her number/address and said "Call me sometime" - that is something completely different.
There is an easy fix- spend a little money and buy a PO Box. Then register your cars and your license to that box. Do not know about other states, but I have done that here in Florida. No home address on either one. Besides this, though, I think one can access home addresses on any People Finder site on the internet. Try it.
You folks are right, and I was plainly wrong.
I was tempted not to reply codetoad as he pointed out my error in an offensive way, but when I'm wrong I own up to it.
I used to work for a large cell phone company. About the time I was hired on a huge story was going around the place about an employee that looked up a famous person’s data. I’m not sure they even did anything with it. It was just known that they accessed the customer’s data because they were famous.
The employee was fired.