GUYS,
GUYS, I
GUYS, I REALLY NEED YOU TO LISTEN FOR JUST A SECOND, ESPECIALLY FOR
THOSE OF YOU DON'T WANT SOCIAL
MEDIA. THERE ARE GOVERNMENT
WORKERS ACROSS THE STATE THAT
ARE ABUSING THEIR ACCESS TO
YOUR SENSE OF PERSONAL AND IT
HAPPENS TO DOZENS OF PEOPLE
RIGHT HERE IN THE TAMPA BAY
AREA LAST BUT HALF OF THEM
NEVER FOUND OUT. THEN
INVESTIGATE4@ WARREN FOUND ALMOT
ALL OF THESE GOVERNMENT
EMPLOYEES GOT A SLAP ON THE4@
WRIST FOR THEIR ABUSE OF ACCESS
.IT'S NOT UNUSUAL TO LOOK UP
AND ACTS ON SOCIAL MEDIA4@.
PEOPLE GET CURIOUS ABOUT WHAT
THEIR FORMER ROMANTIC PARTNERS
LOOK4@4@ LIKE NOW WHAT WHAT THEE
UP TO. BUT WHAT HAPPENED TO
KENNEDY WAS DIFFERENT. IT'S
OBVIOUSLY MISUSE OF THIS4@
KENNEDY SHARED THESE GLAMOR
SHOTS WITH US FROM THE LATE
1980S. THIS WAS AROUND THE TIME@
SHE WAS DATING HER EX BOYFRIEND
LEONARD WILLIS. DECADES LATER
HER EX LOOKED HER UP NOT ON
FACEBOOK BUT IN A CONFIDENT
GOVERNMENT DATABASE. FLORIDA'S
DRIVER AND VEHICLE INFORMATION
DATABASE KNOWN AS DAVID. IT'S
MEANT TO BE A TOOL FOR
GOVERNMENT AGENCY4@ AND LAW
ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS TO CONFIRM
INFORMATION ABOUT MORE DRIVERS,
NOT A TOOL FOR ROMANTIC
SNOOPING.4@ ODD THAT YOU WOULD
JUST SEEK OUT AFTER 20
SOMETHING YEARS4@. FIND OUT THAT
WHAT I'M DOING. SHE WASN'T THE
ONLY ONE LETTER TO WILLIS
ADMITTED COME LOOKING UP ON
DAVID WHILE ON THE JOB. THERE
WAS A BOARDED PORTRAIT
OF REVENUE IN JACKSONVILLE IN A
RARE INTERVIEW WITH
INVESTIGATOR4@, HE SAYS HE ALSO
SEARCHED HIS EX WIFE LOOKING
FOR DRIVERS LICENSE PHOTOS4@. 4T
WILLIS H4@AD ACCESS TO MORE THAN
JUST DRIVER'S LICENSE PHOTOS.
DAVID GIVES USERS ACCESS TO
EVERY FLORIDA DRIVER'S LICENSE
NUMBER ADDRESS4@ SIGNATURE
MEDICAL AND DISABILITY
INFORMATION SOCIAL4@ SECURITY
NUMBER, DATE OF BIRTH AND
VEHICLE INFORMATION AND
EMERGENCY CONTACT INFO. IT'S
INFORMATION THAT OBVIOUSLY4@
COULD BE USED IN IDENTITY THEFT
OR IT COULD BE USED FOR SOME
OF THE VERY4@ PURPOSE THAT IT WS
LEAKED OUT. THESE REPORTS SHOW
DOZENS OF TAMPA BAY GOVERNMENT
WORKERS GOT CAUGHT USING DAVID.
LAST YEAR WITH THE EXCEPTION
OF THE PEOPLE, THEY ALL GOT
VERBAL OR WRITTEN COUNSELING OR
NO DISCIPLINE AT ALL. SOMETIMES
THEIR ACCESS TO SOME PARTS
OF IT LIKE EMERGENCY CONTACT
INFORMATION WAS4@ UNDER WAY WILL
BE REVOKED. LAST YEAR IN TAMPA
BAY ONLY ONE PERSON4@ SUSPENDED
FOR TWO DAYS. A TEMPLE'S HERE
WAS A DISPATCHER WHO USED TO
FIND ADDRESSES FOR CHRISTMAS
CARDS. 4@ONE PERSON GOT4@ FIRED
PORT RICHEY POLICE DISPATCHER
CHRISTIAN MERCADO POLICE4@ BOARD
SAME RICARDO USED DAVID TO LOOK
UP A TEEN GIRL. HE WAS4@ TALKING
TO YOU AND HER PARENTS. MERCADO
DIDN'T RESPOND WHEN WE4@ ASKED
FOR AN INTERVIEW. IN LAKEWOOD,
POLICE OFFICER CHRISTOPHER TO
RESIGNED AFTER HE WAS ACCUSED
OF SEARCHING DAVID FOR PERSONAL
INFORMATION ON MULTIPLE YOUNG
WOMEN. WHILE4@4@ OUT ON POLICE
CALLS IT TENDER, HIS
RESIGNATION HAPPENED TO THE
THAT WOULD HAVE TERMINATED HIM
THAT HE KNEW THAT WAS
INEVITABLE. THAT'S NOTATED
IN THE BIBLE4@. SO YOU WOULD'VE
FIRED IT IF HE HADN'T RESIGNED
IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?
ABSOLUTELY. ONE OF THOSE WOMEN
TOLD POLICE SHE HAD A SEXUAL
ENCOUNTER WITH YOU4@ AFTER
MEETING HIM ON DUTY. ANOTHER
WAS A KNOWN PROSTITUTE
ACCORDING4@ LAKELAND POLICE
REPORT WHO DECLINED OUR REQUEST
FOR AN INT4@ERVIEW4@ THROUGH HIS
ATTORNEY HERE AT THE AGENCY.
WE'RE NOT GOING TO TOLERATE4@ WO
IS NOW BEING CRIMINALL4@Y
PROSECUTED FOR MISUSING DAVID4@
AND THAT'S RARE. DESPITE
AGENCIES REPORTING MORE THAN
900 TIMES SINCE 2015 THAT THEY
WERE EMPLOYING ITS USE. DAVID4@
STATE ATTORNEY'S OFFICES
IN FLORIDA TELL US THEY ONLY
KNOW OF ONE OTHER PERSON WHO
WAS CRIMINALLY CHARGED DURING
THAT TIME. ANOTHER OFFICER
HEARING TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA FISH@
AND WILDLIFE OFFICER RYAN
BUTLER FROM TEMPLE TERRACE.
HE'S IN PRISON AFTER PLEADING
GUILTY TO USING INFORMATION
FROM DAVID TO TRACK HIS
EX-GIRLFRIEND AND SETTING BOTH
FIRES TO HER AND HER4@ FRIENDS
PROPERTY IN 2015. 4@AND IF
SOMEONE WAS LOOKING AT YOU FOR
NO GOOD REASON4@, YOU'D PROBABLY
WANT TO KNOW ABOUT IT. BUT WE
FOUND THAT HALF THE PEOPLE4@
WHOSE INFORMATION WAS ACTIVE
INAPPROPRIATELY BY LAW
ENFORCEMENT IN TAMPA BAY LAST
YEAR WERE NEVER NOTIFIED. AND
HERE'S THE THING. 4@FLORIDA LAW
GIVES THESE AGENCIES AN OUT
WHEN4@ IT COMES TO NOTIFYING
VICTIMS OF A DATA BREACH. AN
AGENCY DOESN'T NOTIFY YOU IF IT
REASONABLY DETERMINES TH4@AT THE
BREACH HAS NOT4@ AND WILL NOT
LIKELY RESULT IN IDENTITY THEFT
OR ANY OTHER FINANCIAL HARM.
BUT IF THEY DON'T NOTIFY, MOST
PEOPLE MAY NOT EVER KNOW THIS
HAS OCCURRED. I'VE HAD CASES
BEFORE WHERE PEOPLE JUST
THOUGHT IT WAS SOME STRANGE
COINCIDENCE IT SAID. WHY IS
THIS PERSON ALWAYS WHERE I'M
GOING? HOW DOES HE KNOW I'M
HERE? HOW DOES HE KNOW WHAT
KIND OF CAR4@ I DRIVE? THE
FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY
SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES4@4@ OR
HSN HE OVERSEES DAVID. THEY
KNOW DAVID MCINNIS4@ WAS A
PROBLEM YEARS AGO SO THEY SORT
OF REQUIRING MORE AUDITS4@ AND
THAT GOVERNMENT WORKERS WHO
USED A BIT OF SIGN
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT THEY COULD
FACE CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
PENALTIES FOR MISUSE. THE4@
PROBLEM IS THE STATE HAS NO
IDEA IF THOSE CHANGES4@ ARE
WORKING BECAUSE THEY AREN'T
TRACKING HOW OFTEN PEOPLE ARE
MISUSING IT. DON'T GET ME WRONG
.AGENCIES ARE REQUIRED TO
REPORT EVEN MISUSED ENVY. BUT
THE AGENCY ONLY DOESN'T USE
THOSE REPORTS TO TRACK
FREQUENCY OF MISUSE. THEY JUST
REVIEW THE INFORMATION AND TAKE
ACTION IF NEEDED. WE REPEATEDLY
ASKED FOR AN INTERVIEW WITH4@ HN
THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR CARRIE
ROSE ABOUT THIS BUT4@ SHE
WOULDN'T TALK TO US. PEOPLE
EXIST THERE IN BEIJING INVADING
PRIVACY BY THE PEOPLE EITHER.
KENNEDY SAYS SHE JUST WANTS
PEOPLE WHO4@ USE THEIR ACCESS TO
FACE CONSEQUENCES. MAYBE4@ YOU
HAVE A DIFFERENT JOB IF THEY
CAN'T HANDLE HAVING THAT TYPE
OF THAT LEVEL OF SECURITY IF
YOU SUSPECT DAVID MISUSED. YOU
CAN SUBMIT A COM4@PLAINT TO THE@
MP. YOU CAN ALSO SUBMIT A
PUBLIC RECORDS REQUEST FOR DATA
SEARCHES OF YO4@UR NAME. YOU CAN
FIND MORE INFO ON HOW TO DO
THAT ON 10 TAMPA BAY DOT COM.
LET'S TAKE A DEEPER4@4@ DOVE INO
WHAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAY
SAFETY AND MOTOR VEHICLES DOES
TO PREVENT MISUSE. EACH AGENCY
WHO GETS ACCESS TO DAVID HAS TO
SIGN AN ANNUAL AGREEMENT TO
FOLLOW ALL RULES AND
REGULATIONS4@ SINCE YOUR PERSONL
INFORMATION IS PROTECTED UNDER
THE FEDERAL DRIVER PRIVACY4@ AND
PROTECTION ACT AS WELL AS
FLORIDA LAW. EACH AGENCY4@ MUST
DO QUARTERLY QUALITY CONTROL
REVIEWS4@ AND THE H S AND V DOES
FIELD AUDITS AT LAW ENFORCEMENT
AGENCIES EVERY TWO YEARS. WE
HAVE GOT ALL OF