http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/06/05/anonymou...s.ap/index.html

 

I'm a bit torn on this. The government sunshine-lover in me would like to see the identities of these people be made public (at least to some extent) to ensure botches don't happen. (i.e. They point to the case of Dr. Alan Doerhoff, a participant in Missouri executions who was revealed in news reports to have been sued for malpractice more than 20 times. The state is no longer using his services.)

 

However, the personal privacy supporter thinks that they should have a right to privacy and not necessarily have their names made public so they aren't harassed within the community if they do make a mistake or by zealots.

 

Being a teacher, I understand that there is not a 100% guarantee of personal privacy for me (community standards laws, etc. in IL -- If I say or do something that goes against the standards of the community, I can face either firing or remediation through my school district) having a government job but that is one of the parts of my job I don't like and wouldn't like to see it extended and blur the line of personal and professional.

 

Thoughts?

This seems like something which needs to be legislated quite carefully before anything horrendous happened and which obviously has not been, so it's going to wind up in the court system now that a really bad case has cropped up.