Bangor Daily News attempted to publish all Maine CCW permit holders, and was thwarted!
The Bangor Daily News has rescinded its request for records about concealed weapon permit holders in the state of Maine. We have informed the agencies who received our request to disregard it. We’ve informed the agencies who have responded that their records will be destroyed.
We are disappointed with the reaction to our request, which we felt was with the best intentions to help study issues affecting Maine through an analysis of publicly available data. We will continue our reporting, but will use other sources of information to do so.
The BDN regrets that its request for information may have been taken as a personal attack on concealed carry permit holders, some of whom work at the BDN.
“Help Study The Issue”? What issue is this? Its not like Maine CCW carriers are committing crimes. Further there is a long history of News Papers publishing people’s personal information for pure political reasons, and those publications have lead to assaults and burglaries.
Also given that this is my home state of Maine, I know several people who got their carry permits as a means to back up a protective order against people who have threatened violence against them. I think we all know publishing their name and addresses only makes people less safe!
Good work people of Maine from pushing back against the anti-freedom pro-criminal paper!
Wonder if they got a few “hey remember that newspaper that had all the employees names and addresses published” type comments and emails.
From their own employees.
Glad Texas makes that type of information private and not subject to FOIA requests.