FC: Prison supervisor convicted of misusing FBI's computer system

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Speaking of the misuse of supposedly confidential FBI databases, let's not 
forget this new bill:

http://www.politechbot.com/docs/doj.childporn.bill.050102.html
> (1) IN GENERAL –  The Attorney General shall establish, and supervise the 
> development and operation of, a comprehensive computerized database 
> (hereafter referred to as the "child pornography identification database") 
> to facilitate the identification of child pornography produced with actual 
> children and to facilitate the identification of perpetrators.

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From: "Diamond, Richard" <Richard.Diamond () mail house gov>
To: "Declan McCullagh (declan () well com)" <declan () well com>
Subject: Government and Privacy
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 13:20:04 -0400

This piece mentioned in today's TechDailyAM is worth noting.  It shows 
exactly why a focus on government privacy problems is important (imagine if 
this guy had *write* access to the database).

http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/18631-1.html


05/13/02

Former corrections officer sentenced for misusing FBI system

By Wilson Dizard III
GCN Staff

Gary Piedmont of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, was sentenced to 30 days of community 
confinement, a $5,000 fine and a year of probation for using the FBI's 
National Crime Information Center system to check whether a warrant had 
been issued for a friend.

Piedmont formerly was a supervisor at the Franklin County Corrections 
Center. While working there he met Melodie Lynn Calomeris, who was housed 
there pending her transfer to a federal prison, according to a summary of 
the matter agreed to by prosecutors and Peidmont before sentencing. 
Piedmont employed Calomeris, also known as Melodie Lynn Stillwell, as a 
housekeeper after her release.

"The Probation Office was in the process of issuing an arrest warrant for 
Calomeris for violating her supervised release," according to a statement 
by Gregory Lockhart, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio. "The 
Marshals Service and the Franklin County Sheriff's Office investigated and 
found that Piedmont had used the system to check on the warrant."

Piedmont checked the NCIC nine times in May 2000 to see if the warrant had 
been issued, authorities said.

Piedmont's sentencing by Magistrate Judge Terence P. Kemp of the U.S. 
District Court for the Southern District of Ohio was based on criminal 
information filed by the U.S. Attorney's office and Piedmont's guilty plea.


Richard Diamond
Office of the Majority Leader
U.S. House of Representatives
202-225-6007 / www.freedom.gov




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