Actually, it COULD stop with him. If she is in compliance with the law - and I believe she has asserted she is - then he gets the info and butts out.
The danger is that her actual address gets published, creating serious security issue for her. Anderson has established that he will not or cannot control information coming into his office on paper. By providing the info directly to him - not in writing - it makes Anderson accountable for the safeguarding of the information. After all - it could only be gathered and leaked AFTER he had control of it, not before.
You have a stunningly active bias in this issue, FRiend.
He has to record the disposition of the case, along with the reasons for the disposition--and that goes into the public record.
The danger is that her actual address gets published, creating serious security issue for her.
Yeah, right, newspapers are going to actually publish her street address. The (extremely) hypothetical case of a newspaper editorial staff losing their collective marbles and doing something that exposes them jointly and severally to huge civil liability issues forms a mystical exemption to standard procedure.
After all - it could only be gathered and leaked AFTER he had control of it, not before.
Unfortunately, he would only have sole custody of it for a brief period of time, and then others would have custody as well.
You have a stunningly active bias in this issue, FRiend.
I am a conservative former cop who expects conservatives to either obey the laws of the land or to accept the consequences of breaking those laws. Obviously, that makes me a heretic.