Public records are for the public! I both love and hate it. I think it makes sense for citizens to be able to check in on what the govt is doing. Unfortunatley

Public records are for the public! I both love and hate it. I think it makes sense for citizens to be able to check in on what the govt is doing. Unfortunatley the govt likes to keep tabs on a lot of things and it'd sure be nice if they didn't and it'd be even nicer if those records didn't have to be public. If you think that request was bad you should look up the history of LexisNexis. Their bread and butter is requesting data and collecting it all into a single database that you can use to background check anyone the american government vaguely knows about. There also used to be a site called masscorruption that I'm pretty sure focused on a single county government in massachusetts run by some whacker with an axe to grind. He filed a FOIA request for every image file on a government desktop, which was fulfilled, and he went on to publish the employee's personal images that probably should not have been stored on a govt computer. At my workplace whenever I put a government employee in the to: line a banner appears in outlook informing me that the message I am writing can be FOIA'd. Especially with local govts you just never know how people are going to get activated and what will be interesting to them.