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They’re wasting tax dollars mailing each CCW permit holder individually asking ‘Do you care if we release your info to the press?’

I think any right minded citizen would say HELL NO, and any government official dedicated to protecting citizens privacy would reject such a request and say ‘HELL NO!’ on behalf of the people.

But apparently not this tin horn sherrif...

I don’t think you understand the article. The sherrif did say hell no and then was court ordered to release those that had not specifically marked their applications as being for security reasons.

So the sherrif is mailing those CCW holders to give them a chance to say they do not wish their information given to the press so he can tell the press and the judge Hell NO! one more time while remaining within the judges order.

Plus it creates a bureaucratic delay in turning the info over to the press while the matter is appealed or until they can get a higher court to issue a stay pending appeal.

This sherrif is doing everything he can to protect his constituents from the press and overweening judges.

I imgine this tin-horn sheriff wants to know ahead of time which gun owners would readily comply with a confiscation order as opposed to which ones wouldn't. I imagine that would correlates reasonably closely with the the ones likely to be difficult as the same ones who reply that they want their name secret.

It's all foresight toward your sheriff's allocation of the Civilian National Security Force (CNSF) assets. Volunteers go the ones who seemed not to care, SWAT team to the one who wanted to be kept secret

In telephonic marketing, some calls are made mechanically, only to record that a human has picked up at such-and-such hour of the day. So-and-so never picked up the phone at 4pm after 40 calls over 5 months. Hmmm. Thieves might find that kind of information interesting; so would CNSF "volunteers" with blanket search warrants of all CCW and FOID card holders.

Click WHATEVER to unsubscribe. Get there, type in your email address, and blammo, even more emails from the very same outfit! Now that they have confirmation you're one to read the fine print on junk email, are they ever interested in you, bub!

I dunno. This sheriff's action is a reaction to the Medford paper's request for the Jackson County list from it's (more gun friendly) sheriff, and his refusal and the subsequent lawsuit by the paper that ultimately required it's release (they even posted it on their website for a while). I'm thinking he wants to avoid getting sued, either by an entity wanting the information or someone who did not want it released.

There is an attorney behind this no doubt (respond with favorite lawyer joke if you wish).

I think any right minded citizen would say HELL NO, and any government official dedicated to protecting citizens privacy would reject such a request and say ‘HELL NO!’ on behalf of the people.

But apparently not this tin horn sherrif...

This "tin horn sherrif" agrees with you

Sheriff Rob Gordon said he believes that people obtain these licenses as a security measure, which would exempt the release of their names. But a circuit court in Jackson County ruled in April that people have to document that the license is for security reasons in order to be exempt from public records law.

It's the circus court who says the names have to be released unless there is a statement on record from the CCW holder saying "HELL NO!"

The sheriff has to comply with the court. He is sending out the letters so he can exempt people from having their names released.