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Th them. [applause] >> joining me now from putnam county the clerk dennis sant and executive county executive mary ellen odell. >> thank you. >> sean: i want to thank you because i thought it was a courageous stand and did it for the safety of your residents in spite of what happened. give us the background. >> we received an foia request as the county clerk did andi and and we protect the people and upholding the law and looked at this and there's really no value to this. we felt na, actually, if we did give that information out, we would be subjecting a lot of our constituents, we would be s...

Names. yes, sir? >> and i spoke to the rockland county clerk this morning and they do exceptional work there, the entire staff. i'd asked him if he minded if i spoke about this, he said not a problem. and he said he received the foia request and by oath of office felt he needed to respond. he pleaded with journal news, both verbally and in writing, please do not disclose and they said we can do what we want with this information. >> sean: there comes a point-- yes, sir in the back. >> six years ago they did this, but the writer at the time, the reporter at the time george fitsgibbon, he had th...

Names. yes, sir? >> and i spoke to the rockland county clerk this morning and they do exceptional work there, the entire staff. i'd asked him if he minded if i spoke about this, he said not a problem. and he said he received the foia request and by oath of office felt he needed to respond. he pleaded with journal news, both verbally and in writing, please do not disclose and they said we can do what we want with this information. >> sean: there comes a point-- yes, sir in the back. >> six years ago they did this, but the writer at the time, the reporter at the time george fitsgibbon, he had th...

Senate that's coming in to protect our privacy and assemblyman mcgee, a democrat in the assembly, is also putting in a bill for the same purpose. >> tucker: good for him. what would be the argument against that? >> quite frankly, there is none. even in the foia request. the freedom of information law requests stipulate that it cannot be disseminated, that information cannot be disseminated if it will cause harm to any citizen. it's also not supposed be to be disseminated if it's going to be used for profit purposes, which is clearly what the journal news has done. >> tucker: clearly, god speed...

The worst behind bars trying to protect and raise their families and exposed in a very public way. >> megyn: with their home addresses in the paper for any former arrestee of theirs to see. >> exactly. we have gotten reports from other states in similar instances, where it has led to criminal actions. i have officers contacting me every single day. the law enforcement community has come together and telling the journal news take this information down. people have to get-- the law was made that allowed this to be publicly accessible is decades old. >> megyn: under a freedom of information act r...