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pacodever
01-20-2013, 03:16 PM
Journal News President and Publisher Janet Hasson said Friday the decision to take down the map came in response to a provision in New York’s new gun law that was passed last week. The law also gives permit holders a way to request that their personal information be kept private.

Hasson criticized the new rule as overly broad, but added in a letter that "we are not deaf to voices who have said that new rules should be set for gun permit data.”

Still, a snapshot of the map -- without the names and addresses -- has been kept on the paper’s website “to remind the community that guns are a fact of life we should never forget,” she wrote.

The new law, signed Jan. 15 by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, also stopped the release of permit-holder data for 120 days. The Journal News had been battling Putnam County to release the names and addresses of permit holders, but officials there had refused.

The state government's top open-records official had warned that refusing the request would be illegal.


Janet Hasson is a real piece of work.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-new-york-newspaper-gun-permits-map-offline-20130119,0,1918180.story

FindLiberty
01-20-2013, 04:54 PM
OK then!

It's just like un-breaking an egg.