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Washington Dancers Sue To Prevent Identity Disclosure
An anonymous reader writes with this BBC story about a Washington open-records law that is having some controversial consequences for some unlikely people. "Government open-records requests can be boring. Government open-records requests made by a man who wants to obtain information about 70 licensed strippers in his town so he can 'pray for them', on the other hand... The godly citizen in question is David Allen Van Vleet of Tacoma, Washington. In September he filed court papers to obtain personal information on 70 government-licensed nude dancers at a nightclub in his area — including their full names, addresses, photos and dates of birth. (Yes, Washington requires nude dancers to pay a $75 a year license fee.) The county auditor granted his request under the state's open-records law - although she also notified area dancers and club managers of her action. On 21 October two licensees sued to block the release of the information. Two days later a county judge issued a temporary order blocking the release, with a final decision scheduled for 15 December."
How much of David Allen Van Vleet's personal information is now public record because he filed these court papers?
David Allen Van Vleet died in 2006, a good 8 years before he made his FOIA request.
Zombies don't usually worry about retaliation. They keep coming after their target, slowly but surely, filing out FOIA requests after FOIA requests, submitting court documents after court documents. They're relentless. Outside of updating their facebook page, playing the occasional farmville game, and voting in elections, they really have nothing else to do but pursue full-bosomed women.
You clearly don't have a good understanding of prayer. Clearly God knows everything and has a supreme vision of how his eternal plan is to unfold. Prayer is a way to say to God "excuse me, but I would like you to change your plan, I have an idea of how things should progress, and I would like you to at least consider if my idea isn't the right way for things to go". Clearly no one would bother the Almighty just to say "I approve of how you plan to have all things develop, keep up the good work", so when contacting God to ask him to change his plans you better have good facts, like names and addresses and exact birth dates of any strippers that you want him to change his plans for the universe over. Otherwise you're just bothering him needlessly.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Too bad the license costs $75/year. If it were free, we could fix this problem really quickly by everyone applying for stripper licenses. It would also be a great novelty item if it were only, say $10/year.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
If they were easier to get I'd happily cough up the $75 to become an officially licensed exotic dancer, but the county referenced when I first saw this story a few days ago looked like it'd be a pain unless you were actually an employee of one of the businesses.
Of course, if I did this my wife might actually demand that I dance for her and that could just be ugly all around. I am not a man built for a stripper pole.
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just a little off
I'm interested in the real identity of Jaquie from the Industrial Strip Gentleman's Club in Hammond, IN. Sweetie, if you see this, call me. Daddy's been bad again.
Don't look at me like that. She's working her way through law school, you know.
You are welcome on my lawn.
First they came for the strippers...
Then they needed about half an hour to recover.
Then they came for the strippers again.
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
"I am shocked, shocked, to find there is nudity in here."
Only Claude Rains could pull that off.
Depends.... One could be walking into a stripclub and then realize, too late, that it's called The Blue Oyster Bar....