Comments on: Gilley Proposes Warning To Anyone Contacting Escambia County By Email Or Online

By: Gin

Gin — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 16:24:38 +0000

Well well well. Lol Anyone can cut copy and paste another’s email address or someone they want to get in trouble. Say they did stuff . It’s been done to my son a couple times. Thank you for the warning. But we have Some wonderful Judges that don’t accept things. That catch and ask the people if they did that. And believe you me. The people responsible will be notified. Do don’t be afraid to use email to make comments. Or reques.t stuff. Unless your one who is trying to be underhanded. Have a wonderful day! To che. Thank you Judge Boles…MG

By: judy

judy — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 13:24:28 +0000

E-mails have been public record since around 2016. It is published on all county and state websites. Everybody should already know that if they have your e-mail, they also have access to your IP address. No mystery if you know much about computers…

By: DerekW

DerekW — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 11:25:15 +0000

This is so bogus! The intent of the statute is to make absolutely sure that public records request can be made anonymously. It this county paid attorney can not figure this one out, he/she should look for other employment. This is a total sham to discourage people from making anonymous public records request of the county. Most anonymous requests are made for fear of retribution….. the intent of the statute is to protect these people!

By: mnon

mnon — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 09:30:12 +0000

Three letters … V P N… two words Shell Accounts

I don’t use it for like making a FB post etc. but when I go to pay bills or check county sites etc I use a 256bit military grade double encryption on it every time. So yeah good luck to pull my IP on their sites, or intercept data. It’ll look like I’m in Thailand and if you figure that out it will led you to South Africa and so on.

There are ways around everything to remain anonymous online. Most just don’t know how. Use a TOR browser and a proxy too… so many ways…

By: MR REALITY

MR REALITY — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 02:20:40 +0000

Charlie, you are on to something…and they vote and collude with each other behind closed doors…

By: Whisperjet

Whisperjet — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:46:08 +0000

…Thank the Lord we have a county administrator who is looking out for county employees as well as the tax payers who are footing the bill for all that keeps this county moving ahead
.It seems there some folks who are only interested in their well being and future more than running this county in a progressive manner..

By: Howie

Howie — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 19:34:29 +0000

I have several items on my agenda to discuss with the County. I won’t be sending emails, but instead handwritten letters via the US Postal Service. Every Government office has a mailing address.

To remain anonymous is everyone’s own business. It’s nosey employees trying to reveal the identity of private information requests. I hope they get fired for digging into business that don’t relate to them. This goes for all companies.

Emails and phone calls will not protect you from anonymity. They should be kept secret, but you have tattletales in this world.

By: eric

eric — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:44:42 +0000

We are becoming a police state

By: William Lingo

William Lingo — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 16:20:17 +0000

Of course the AG would say the IP address is public records, the government could care less about our right to anonymity!!! Thank you Janice Gilley for thinking about the citizens of this county. Perhaps the IP address of the county employee trying to expose the person that requested the retirement plan information should be exposed as well!!!!

By: Melissa Pino

Melissa Pino — Mon, 14 Jun 2021 15:53:43 +0000

Thank you for running this, Mr. Reynolds. It’s so unfortunate that a County administrator would continue to disinform the public on an issue that is complicated enough, and also fraught with people’s justifiable fears over being tracked by their electronic data and meta-data.

It’s not the County making these rules, but the County following the AG’s advice on the Sunshine laws. That couldn’t be any more clear.

This is analogous to a time when a staff member at the County put a big public records request in for all of my communications with certain entities at the County, asked to remain anonymous in the note he wrote to request it, then signed his name to the request. If County staff doesn’t understand it, then it’s no wonder the public would be confused. They deserve clarity from the County Administration, not spin.

It was in fact Ms. Gilley who ramped up the notion that requests could be made anonymously at the County while knowing that meta-data was public record. (Requests CAN be made anonymously, but a person has to be knowledgeable about how to do so.) She also instituted, early on in her tenure, an online employee hot-line to report things and claimed their anonymity would be secured. The ones who know how meta-data works were wise to steer clear of it, and warn fellow staff members not to use it.

Hopefully this issue will be put to rest at the meeting on Thursday morning.