Oh, I agree. But let the reporters do that. It’s their job. Just point them towards the data and they’ll do the rest. If someone’s butt is going to be on the l

Oh, I agree. But let the reporters do that. It’s their job. Just point them towards the data and they’ll do the rest. If someone’s butt is going to be on the line, it should be a corporation’s (the news agency), or perhaps an individual investigative journalist. Not you. Not for something like this, anyway. If it was just social security numbers I might agree with you, but police databases are obviously dangerous to disseminate, even if it’s just to prove they exist. He could’ve sent redacted screenshots. Point being, we don’t know what he sent, but sending anything at all from a police database is a bad idea. No lawyer would ever say that that’s legal, let alone ethical.