Rockland County Sheriff Louis Falco said that inmates are using the map of legal handgun permit holders published by the Journal News to threaten and intimidate guards, Fox News reported Friday.
"They have inmates coming up to them and telling them exactly where they live. That's not acceptable to me," he said.
"You have guys who work in New York City who live up here. Now their names and addresses are out there, too," added Robert Riley, an officer with the White Plains Police Department and president of its Patrolman’s Benevolent Association.
According to Fox, local lawmakers say they intend to introduce legislation preventing information about legal gun owners being released to the public.
On Christmas Eve, we reported that the Journal News, a Gannett-owned company, published an interactive map showing the names and addresses of legal handgun permit holders in two New York counties. The paper intended to publish the information of a third county, but Putnam County officials say they will not comply with the publication's Freedom of Information Act request.
Newsday reported that Aron Wieder, a Democratic legislator from Spring Valley "called the publication of the list 'irresponsible journalism' and said he now fears for his safety because the map broadcast that he does not have a gun license."
"At the news conference Friday morning, he handed a $150 certified check and a completed pistol permit application to Rockland County Clerk Paul Piperato," Newsday added.
"I never owned a gun but now I have no choice," Wieder said. "I have been exposed as someone that has no gun. And I'll do anything, anything to protect my family."
"This is what happens when you allow left-wing activists to control a newsroom," John Nolte wrote at Breitbart.com. "In a fit of misguided, self-righteous indignation, they run amok."
"Ironically," Newsday added, "the newspaper has now stationed armed guards outside at least one of its offices."
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