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Reply to "Another televangelist bites the dust"

Originally Posted by disolve:
Originally Posted by Contendah:

It S the arrest record that contains the SS Number and other information and as I pointed out, Oklahoma law apparently does NOT prohibit release of such information.  

 

If you KNOW of some express legal prohibition against release of a person's SS Number, then tell us what that is. All that you or others thus far have done is to state your opinion that there is some such prohibition or that there ought to be.  If indeed there actually is some such prohibition, tell us where is it and what it says?

Happy reading!

 

http://www.justice.gov/opcl/1974privacyact.pdf

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Having read it, I find nothing in it that would prohibit the entry of a social security number on a traffic ticket.  


To summarize, the Privacy Act of 1974   requires that any federal, state, or local government agency that requests your Social Security Number has to tell you four things:

1. Whether disclosure of your Social Security Number is required or optional,
2. What law authorizes them to ask for your Social Security Number,
3. How your Social Security Number will be used if you give it to them, and
4. The consequences of failure to provide an SSN.

 

Neither you nor I know whether the drunken Mr. Roberts was informed of these four things.  Nor do we know whether, if he was so informed, his mind was sufficiently clear to understand the significance of what he was told.  In any case, the provisions of the Privacy Act of 1974 clearly do NOT include any kind of across-the-board prohibition of the use of the social security number by agencies of government, including law enforcement agencies.

 

disolve, the mere fact that the Privacy Act of 1974 has some a heading and some provisions involving use of social security numbers does not equate to a prohibition of entry of such a number on a publicly-available arrest record or any other public record.  If you find something in the act that indicates otherwise, thern you should cite that particular provision.

 

 


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