WHAT IS THE VIRGINIA WATCHDOG WEBSITE ALL ABOUT?
THE ISSUE: The Virginia Watchdog website – which is NON-PARTISAN (we go after all stupid legislators) is about “public” records which contain SSNs, DOBs, home addresses, mother’s maiden names, minor children’s names, signatures, health information, and financial account numbers being made available online by the following state agencies: Court Clerks, Recorders, Registers of Deeds, and Secretaries of State. Our mission is to get people to realize that this is happening all over this country – not just Virginia – and that they and their identities and personal welfare are at risk. Fifty nine Virginia Circuit Court Clerks are offering access to the records via the internet. Why have states’ legislators allowed the records held by those elected officials to be made available online when you used to have to travel to the courthouse to see them? Answer: to serve “special interests.” Those records used to enjoy “practical obscurity” within the four walls of courthouses, but no more. You have
