Compiling an illegal law enforcement list of civilian gun owners in Sarasota County?
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    Question Compiling an illegal law enforcement list of civilian gun owners in Sarasota County?

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    That is not public information, at the time of this writing. What is the IA case number?

    Thank you for providing Florida state statute 790.335 for public reading:
    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/.../0790.335.html

    FSS search engine:
    http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/

    Quote Originally Posted by Unregistered View Post
    The [SSO] records department [accidentally] gave me a [master] list of [civilian] gun owners [who live in Sarasota County]. Then they investigated the [records clerk for accidentally giving me that illegally compiled list of gun owners]. They punished the records lady [for giving me the list]. [It is] a 3rd degree felony [for a law enforcement agency to compile a list of law abiding civilian gun owners, according to FSS 790.335].

    IA case # 2019-017

    I filed [a complaint] with the State Attorneys Office for this felony violation [of compiling a list of gun owners], but the [SAO] will not get back to me [to say] if he will do anything. Here's the video [of my SAO interview]:
    https://youtu.be/jcyZb8A9Fok

    Do not reelect State Attorney [Ed Brodsky]
    Copwatch has a notorious reputation for being anti-cop, so you will not get sympathy at this website. However...

    Your allegation is intriguing because the list of gun owners that you are describing is a product of "Intelligence led policing," which was implemented in the SSO by our current sheriff (Tom Knight). Intelligence led policing has its own inherent biases against "selectively targeted people." Here is an article about an Orwellian database that Colonel Kurt Hoffman implemented:
    https://www.codysystems.com/cody-in-...-system-search

    The public is obviously not supposed to know about the in-house list of law abiding civilian gun owners in Sarasota County. Only stolen firearms are allowed to be compiled into a database. If the illegally compiled list was taken from the statewide CCW database, then that is a gross felony violation that can only be investigated by an outside agency (such as FDLE). If the list was compiled from local pawnshop transactions, then it's still a violation, but it's not quite as Orwellian.

    If your story is true, then you should contact an editor named Mr. Lee Williams and tell him about your claims. Here is his contact information:


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    Lightbulb FINDER database illegally compiling list of Florida’s gun owners?

    Quote Originally Posted by “Lee Williams”
    Florida’s largest gun rights organization — Florida Carry, Inc. — in a letter to Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, is asking for a statewide investigation into law enforcement’s illegal compilation of multiple lists of gun owners in the statewide FINDER database. The database's list of gun owners is expressly forbidden by the following Florida statute:

    • No state governmental agency or local government… shall knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms: 790.335, Fla. Stat.

    The FINDER database was created after 9/11 to allow law enforcement to store and share intelligence data statewide to track terrorists.

    It is a felony for a Florida sheriff to compile lists of gun owners, said Sean Caranna, the executive director of Florida Carry, Inc
    List of gun owners from Sarasota Sheriff's Office database (excerpt):
    https://www.thegunwriter.com/wp-cont...1-1024x719.jpg

    Full story:
    https://www.thegunwriter.com/24857/f...nWC34ZWd7LmMAY

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    Last edited by Media; 10-11-2019 at 01:26 AM.
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