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Jose Garcia

(2,598 posts)
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 11:24 AM Oct 2018

Sandy Hook father Lenny Pozner sues Delray Beach

Source: Florida Politics

A father of a child killed at Sandy Hook just sued the city of Delray Beach, accusing an employee of illegally accessing his driver’s license records.

Lenny Pozner, whose son Noah was among 20 children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, in 2012, filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city and employee Rhea-Lyn Gerstenkorn.

The complaint says Gerstenkorn on at least three occasions illegally accessed Pozner’s personal information through Florida’s Driver and Information Database through her position at the police department.

Considering Pozner for years battled conspiracy theorists intent on proving his son never existed, he labeled such searches “unwelcome.”

Read more: http://floridapolitics.com/archives/277383-sandy-hook-father-lenny-pozner-sues-delray-beach

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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
3. I hope he wins.
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 11:31 AM
Oct 2018

These so-called 'truthers' need to learn that their nuttiness can have real-life consequences.

 

Racerdog1

(808 posts)
5. These asswipes
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 11:41 AM
Oct 2018

Are lower than snake shit. I live in FL. I can tell you the swamp dwellers that believe this shit are plentiful. Great thing is a lot of them are old and will doe soon.

melm00se

(4,993 posts)
7. perhaps a naive question
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 11:59 AM
Oct 2018

but how would you know that a specific person accessed your file at the <insert government agency here>?

 

DRoseDARs

(6,810 posts)
9. I don't believe any DMV would humor anonymous records requests.
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 12:30 PM
Oct 2018

Identify yourself, who you work for, and for what reason your are requesting the records. Some of the information *might* be public record though I don't know enough about it to be sure. Moreover, if the officer involved didn't have to request through a DMV representative, she'd still have to leave identifiable and traceable information leading back to her. I doubt she works as a double-agent for Russia, so unlikely she hacked her way into DMV records.

No, there was simply no way for this officer to secretly access this information. And she had no business doing so. Certainly did not have a warrant either. She dun fucked up.

Edit: Hell, even if I access my OWN records at NV DMV I have to pay a fee if I want to see my driving record to print out for an employer (driving company vehicles).

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
10. I work for a large corporation..every request for sensitive information is tracked
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 01:23 PM
Oct 2018

including if you review a customer record

tammywammy

(26,582 posts)
12. Here's a more detailed article
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 02:28 PM
Oct 2018
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/sandy-hook-dad-leonard-pozner-says-south-florida-cop-stalked-him-10817051

In Pozner's case, he says one Delray PD employee, Gerstenkorn, viewed his private information three times August 12, 2017. The suit says Pozner filed a records request with the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles that year to double-check if any officers had been accessing his private files through the database. Under Florida law, it's illegal for cops to access DAVID information unless it's part of a police investigation. Pozner says there was no investigation when Gerstenkorn accessed his file. He is seeking $95,000 in damages.

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lovemydogs

(575 posts)
13. When are these Sandy Hook parents going to be left alone?
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 02:53 PM
Oct 2018

They suffered so much anguish with the nightmare of having their children murdered in a mass shooting. Then they have had to endure years of hounding by sick and twisted conspiracy theorists and their threats.
No other families of mass shootings have had to deal with this kind of sick twisted hounding like the families of Sandy Hook

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
14. What's really disgusting is that we have not passed any laws to protect people like Pozner.
Fri Oct 12, 2018, 10:52 PM
Oct 2018

He and his wife have had to move several times to avoid these sick twists. Now, they maintain separate residences.

One very disturbed woman in FL stalked him, left messages that she was going to kill him. She is now in jail.

There was a tenured professor at FAU who repeatedly went to Sandy Hook, knocked on doors, demanding that the parents of these children produce birth certificates to prove that the children had even been born. He went so far as to try to request exhumation of [/b]graves. He harassed, threatened and intimidated these parents to the point of insanity. FAU warned him repeatedly to stop. He refused and after five years, he was summarily fired (Despite having tenure, which he thought would make him immune.) by the university.

And I won't even start on what alex jones has done to these families. Free speech, my ass.

What these people have been put through and have had to endure is nothing short of abuse.

There is no excuse for this country to have failed these parents so miserably. Laws must be passed to protect them from these lunatics.

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