{"id":86810,"date":"2022-10-19T14:28:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86810"},"modified":"2022-10-19T14:28:49","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T19:28:49","slug":"86810","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=86810","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

California Judge Blocks Release of Gun Owners\u2019 Personal Information<\/a><\/p>\n

Last fall, California\u2019s oleaginous governor signed a bill into law that allows the\u00a0distribution of personal information<\/a>\u00a0of the state\u2019s gun\u00a0buyers with academic researchers. Researchers like gun\u00a0control advocate\u00a0Garen Wintemute<\/a>\u00a0who runs the UC Davis California Firearm Violence Research Center, a producer of anti-gun\u00a0\u201cresearch\u201d used to back efforts to limit Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

Sharing California gun\u00a0owners\u2019 personal data is a situation that\u2019s ripe for abuse. And given the state\u2019s record of\u00a0doxxing gun owners<\/a>, it puts law-abiding citizens at risk. That\u2019s why a group of gun\u00a0rights orgs sued to block the data dumps. And the state\u2019s abysmal record played into San Diego Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal\u2019s decision. As she wrote . . .<\/p>\n

Defendant responds plaintiffs cannot establish irreparable harm because the personal identifying information has already been shared with researchers as recently as November of 2021. Opp. at 17. Yet this does not account for the potential ongoing and future harms that could occur by continuous use of the information. Additionally, although the most recent sharing of plaintiffs\u2019 personal identifying information occurred in November of 2021, this does not necessarily mean that future requests for data would not occur in the interim. Furthermore, and while this motion has been pending,\u00a0a massive data breach reportedly occurred that leaked personal identifying information from the firearm databases for concealed carry applicants in or about June of 2022<\/strong>. See ROA # 85 at 5. Accordingly, plaintiffs have shown that the balance of harms weighs in favor of issuing the injunction. (emphasis added)<\/em><\/p>\n

Judge Bacal has\u00a0issued an injunction<\/a>\u00a0blocking the distribution of the information. Here\u2019s the Firearms Policy Coalition\u2019s press release . . .<\/p>\n

Today, Firearms Policy Coalition (FPC) announced that San Diego Superior Court Judge Katherine Bacal has issued a preliminary injunction in its lawsuit challenging California\u00a0Assembly Bill 173<\/a>, which requires the state\u2019s Department of Justice to share the personal identifying information of millions of gun\u00a0and ammunition owners with other parties for non-law-enforcement purposes. The ruling in\u00a0Barba v. Bonta<\/a>, which was affirmed by the judge in full, can be viewed at\u00a0FPCLegal.org<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDefendant responds plaintiffs cannot establish irreparable harm because the personal identifying information has already been shared with researchers as recently as November of 2021. Yet this does not account for the potential ongoing and future harms that could occur by continuous use of the information,\u201d wrote Judge Bacal in her ruling. \u201cAdditionally. . .this does not necessarily mean that future requests for data would not occur in the interim . . .and while this motion has been pending, a massive data breach reportedly occurred that leaked personal identifying information from the firearm databases for concealed carry applicants in or about June of 2022. Accordingly, plaintiffs have shown that the balance of harms weighs in favor of issuing the injunction.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe California government has proven time and time again that it can\u2019t be trusted with the private personal information of its residents,\u201d said FPC Director of Legal Operations Bill Sack. \u201cToday\u2019s ruling reinforces what FPC has been arguing all along; that you needn\u2019t be forced to open your front door to immoral government intrusion in order to exercise your fundamental rights.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

FPC is joined in this lawsuit by the Second Amendment Foundation, California Gun\u00a0Rights Foundation, San Diego County Gun\u00a0Owners PAC, Orange County Gun\u00a0Owners PAC, and Inland Empire Gun\u00a0Owners PAC.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

California Judge Blocks Release of Gun Owners\u2019 Personal Information Last fall, California\u2019s oleaginous governor signed a bill into law that allows the\u00a0distribution of personal information\u00a0of the state\u2019s gun\u00a0buyers with academic researchers. Researchers like gun\u00a0control advocate\u00a0Garen Wintemute\u00a0who runs the UC Davis California Firearm Violence Research Center, a producer of anti-gun\u00a0\u201cresearch\u201d used to back efforts to limit … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,50,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courts","category-goobermint","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86811,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86810\/revisions\/86811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}