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Confidentiality for officials being abused to thwart toll enforcement in California


Confidentiality designed to protect government workers in California from harassment by criminals is being abused to allow them to avoid toll enforcement, reports the Orange County Register newspaper (2008-04-04). The Register did a major investigation of what is called the Confidential Records Program, a law enacted in 1978 which allowed police and other law officers' home addresses and those of their relatives to be omitted from the state motor registry database.
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Nixon was a dummy - NJ Pike case says he could have invoked copyright to suppress the White House tapes COMMENT


The New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) has launched an extraordinary lawsuit to  suppress leaked video of a car crashing into the Egg Harbor toll plaza and bursting into flames on the Garden State Parkway on the morning of May 10. This after the video has been shown on local TV and posted to dozens of websites and viewed by hundreds of thousands of people in the intervening two weeks.
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