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run off water a pollutant. but do you have any idea what the e.p.a.'s real rationale for this was? >> well, i think first of all what they said in court is they acknowledge that what they put in this permit to regulate was water when which is not a pollutant. what they then argued was well it helps us get not good enough. regulate this like pollutant you don't have the authority to do that end of case. you asked what were they trying to do? first of all they were trying to get the legal ability to bootstrap non-pollutants to get at pollutants, which, in turn, would have given them a massive beach head in local land use and the ability to have a seat at the table when your local county is making decisions about zoning and storm water and things like that. which would have put the e.p.a. in every economic development decision everywhere in the country. or at least given them the ability to get there.
right. they didn't create a list of sexual predators or criminal history of illegal firearm purchases: they are left of the left editorial board. and they try to connect the atrocity in connect cut somehow can w. this maneuver to try to justify it. we have victims of domestic violence that have called my office who have now, the stockers and whatnot are back couple days before christmas when this happened. we live in new york city, right? the metropolitan area. we have a lot of new york city police officers retired and live in our area. they put the worse of the worse away. we are talking about bad people, rapists, thugs, murders, gang members. and now we the journal news created interactive map allow those people to get to the doorstep of these first responders. >> why would the county give this information up? there is all sorts of behavior regulated by the state. painkillers, for example. would the county give the name of everyone who has a pain
killer prescription? probably not? it's such bad judgment to give this information. >> it's good that put ma'am county had the fortitude not to do it. the attorneys from the genus is going to counter and there will be a process. we need to make sure legislative there is a law in place like massachusetts and florida has make sure this information is not disseminated. >> alisyn: there is a law that allows it to be disseminated the freedom of information act allows the county executives, clerks for this information and they must turn it over. that clerk that we just showed is actually in violation of the law right now. the journal news progressive from my perspective it's non-warranted violation of privacy. that's an exemption also the fact that somebody's lives is at risk. we are talking about public safety. what's going to happen is that law enforcement officials from across the state are coming together to demand the journal news rescind their actions and that we move forward legislatively. this isn't a second amendment issue. this is privacy issue. we have gun control people and