Appeals Court OKs CA Invasion of Privacy

[Subdeacon Joe]

Overturns Lower Court Decision

 

 

"SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A state appeals court ruled that California can continue providing personal information of gun owners to researchers to study gun violence, reversing last year's decision by a lower court judge who said such data sharing violates privacy rights.

In 2021, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law allowing the state's Department of Justice to share identifying information of more than 4 million gun owners in California with qualified research institutions to help them better study gun violence, accidents and suicides. The information — which the state collects with every firearm sale to perform background checks — include names, addresses, phone numbers, and any criminal records, among other things. Under the law, researchers can use the information and make their findings public, but can't release any identifying information of gun owners.

In response, gun owners and organizations sued the state, arguing that the disclosure of their information violates their privacy rights. San Diego County Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal ruled to temporarily block the law last October.

But on Friday, a three-judge panel of the California Court of Appeals for the Fourth District found that the lower court failed to consider the state's interest in studying and preventing gun violence in its analysis before halting the law. In the opinion, Associate Justice Julia C. Kelety sent the case back to the lower court and said the preliminary injunction must be reversed.

Lawyers representing the gun owners and firearms groups suing the state didn't immediately respond to calls and an email seeking comment."

You can bet that the personal information will be "leaked" to the public, thereby endangering all gun owners.

 

 

[Blackwater 53393]

I said it in a post on another thread here. Leave it to California gooberment to get anything rights related ASSBACKWARD!!

[Gungadin]

The states interest takes priority over personal rights?  Now I see the problem.  This is similar to taking your property by eminent domain not because they want to build a road or a lake but because if the give it to someone else they will get more taxes etc.

 

WRONG

 

But you saw similar with 1st amendment rights during COVID...

 

But it is all for safety and the government will assure our safety

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

I have had to delete , the attempts to respond to this issue , LEST I GET BANNED 

 

  CB 

 

[Chickasaw Bill SASS #70001]

put it this way , IF the State or Federal Governments , have more rights than the people 

 

  the people are slaves 

 

  Chickasaw Bill