Peter makes an outstanding point.  In North Carolina, I heard a public official talk through how the folks who appraise property had spent substantial time developing complete information about each parcel of property within that county, and had taken photos of each property....and subsequently provided web-based access to ALL of the information.  They were quite "surprised" to learn later that some "elements" of the community used the information to determine which homes looked like the most promising for their next burglary attempt.  In that county, the photos and the detailed information came off of the web pretty quickly.
 
In Texas, state agencies have had to be careful to pull back a bit on what information was considered to be public.  In the "early" days of FOIA and Public Records Acts, almost everything - including detailed information regarding computer systems, vulnerabilities of those systems, floor plans of government buildings, etc. were routinely considered to be "public record".  Those issues have been re-thought, and there is a bit less information available now.....and for good reason.
 
Doug Allen, CRM, CDIA+
 

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