ACLU sues to block the city's release of names of residents who obtain a permit to hire day laborer

ACLU sues to block the city's release of names of residents who obtain a permit to hire day laborers.

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ACLU sues to block the city's release of names of residents who obtain a permit to hire day laborers. Newspapers oppose the bid.

The often-emotional debate over immigration roiling cities across the country has morphed here into an unusual clash between individual privacy rights and public access to governmental records.

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What is the big deal here? I have always been under the impression when any individual applies for any kind of permit it becomes a matter of public record.

What a bunch of hypcrites one day they are suing because the government is not releasing names and the next they are suing because they are releasing them. :shk:

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[edit on 9/20/2007 by shots]