The office of Republican Texas attorney general Ken Paxton this summer sought data on how many people had changed the gender information on their driver’s licenses, according to a newspaper report published on Wednesday that civil rights attorneys described as worrying.
A DPS spokesperson told the Post that no data was ultimately handed over because it could not be accurately produced.
The DPS found over 16,000 gender changes over the past two years, but officials said a manual search would have been required to determine the reason for each one....it's worrying that government officials cannot produce accurate figures when it's presumably what they are paid to do. That's what you meant, right?
Brian Klosterboer, an attorney at the ACLU of Texas, said this request of information was “highly unusual“ and a violation of privacy.
“We suspect that this kind of data inquiry is an attempt to create information to further restrict and curtail the rights of transgender people living in Texas,” Klosterboer told the Associated Press.
As a famous fictional attorney once said, it doesn't matter what you think. What matters is what you can prove...
If it is a violation of privacy then they should stop collecting it.
ReplyDeleteIt is a simple thing to get the computer to state how many were one sex before and now another. Sure there may not be a reason attached but like all civil servants, who believe they are above the law they should be disciplined for their failure to provide the requested data.
"If it is a violation of privacy then they should stop collecting it."
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't appear to have occurred to them, does it?