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Court Allows Arkansas To Hide Wikipedia Edits
rheotaxis writes "A circuit judge in Arkansas will not order the state to reveal where its computers were used to edit Wikipedia articles about former governor Mike Huckabee while he was running for President. Two Associated Press journalists used WikiScanner to track the edits to IP addresses used by the state. Writer Jon Gambrell and News Editor Kelly P. Kissel filed a suit in October 2007 asking the state to reveal which state offices used the IP addresses, because state rules don't allow using computer resources for political purposes. The director of the Arkansas Department of Information Systems, Claire Bailey, claimed in court that releasing this information would allow hackers to target these state offices."
Corruption in government should be investigated and cleaned up, even on small scales. If you leave it alone, it will fester. And yes, using government resources for political gain is corruption.
What's interesting here is they were able to shutdown an investigation into government corruption in the name of security. I guess it's not just for federal government anymore.
That's for private investigators - note the "private". If you aren't investigating private persons, then you don't need a PI license.