Thursday, October 22, 2009

We're the Only Ones Invading Your Privacy Enough

A Richmond police officer has been arrested on charges of inappropriately accessing the state’s Virginia Criminal Information Network database. [More]
"Only Ones" stories like this puzzle me. Why is it they would even try, unless experience told them there was a good chance they'd never be detected?

[Via Mack H]

2 comments:

Bruce Krafft said...

What I want to know is why the Commonwealth's Attorney felt it necessary to specify that 'the usage did not involve anything predatory or sexual, and it also didn't involve any minor.' Are we to assume that if an accusation is not accompanied by such a disclaimer that we should assume that the violation was predatory and sexual involving a minor?

Mack said...

Bruce,

That's actually an insightful question. Also unsaid is how this incident came to the attention of the Virginia State Police.

Sadly, under Virginia law, none of this is subject to mandatory FOIA.

Sure, you can try. And the authorities can refuse.

Hernandez was charged with § 18.2-152.5, Computer invasion of privacy.

Also odd is that the Richmond Times-Dispatch has not reported this. Rather, this report is from a free weekly. Odd.

And according to this, Samuel Hernandez has been involved in numerous investigations, including Project Exile.