Bozeman, MT Drops Password Info Requirement

mcmoodle writes "Bozeman, Montana has decided that they don't want applicant personal information after all, citing a worldwide backlash on the issue: '"Effective at noon today the city of Bozeman permanently ceased the practice of requesting that candidates selected for positions under a provisional job offer to provide their usernames or passwords for candidates' internet sites," said Chris Kukulski, Bozeman City Manager. ... Kukulski says after a 90 minute staff meeting held earlier today, officials decided asking applicants to provide their passwords to sites such as Facebook or MySpace, "exceeded that which is acceptable to our community." Kukulski apologized for the negative impact the issue has generated from news organizations and blogs around the world.' I didn't have any doubt this would be immediately squashed. Now I'm just curious as to how many personal accounts they actually went through!"

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Have to disagree with this "The executive cannot just "do whatever it wants" unless congress and the judiciary let it"..Yes, I agree that is the theory and the design and intent, The practice is, the executive branch controls all the guns and legions of unquestioning order followers. That's the reality on the ground. That's also the main reason the founders were so much against a permanent standing army, because they realized it would lead *inevitably* to an executive branch dictatorship.