Should it be that easy to socially engineer city employees with access to huge troves of potentially confidential information? If anything, OP did the city a f

Should it be that easy to socially engineer city employees with access to huge troves of potentially confidential information? If anything, OP did the city a favor by going out of his way to inform them. What if OP was a black hat? Also, who cares why he wanted the data? It's his right to it as a citizen. Just like it's your right to drive around at 2am without answering to the cops, even if they find it weird.