From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , "Geo"
 wrote:
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>No, I mean registrations and license info (with photos) as well ad driving
>records. My brother-in-law used to be married to a woman who worked EMS, she
>had access to license info any time she wanted but you and me don't. Why
>should some people have this access and the rest of us don't?

It's a bit different here - accesses are logged and have to match
"official" requests such as DLICNO (driver's licence number
queries) from officers performing traffic duties - in turn logged as
official traffic stops. Uncorrelated usage is queried and people are
convicted of abusing the system from time to time, usually for supplying
details to private investigators etc.

>I paid for the frellin census with my tax dollars, why should I pay twice?

... because it costs extra money to satisfy indivudual requests. Quite
properly, it's "user pays" instead of additional taxation.

>I can't find my house.

I can find mine. I wouldn't expect you to find yours, you didn't pay for
the photography to be done.

>Here I either have to pay for it a second time or I have to have a friend in
>the police department.

Same reason as the census data. I happen to know the system behind it, it's
part of the Postlink system I worked on for 3 years. The fee is reasonable,
it appears to reflect only the actual cost.

>Again, here I have to pay for it a second time.

Again, same reason as the census data.

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