Travis County Clerk Dana DeBeauvoir has halted publishing the County's document images on the Internet, citing concerns about revealing individual citizens' personal data.

“I am a strong supporter of open government, however, my obligation as an elected official is to respond to legitimate public concern and to do everything within my authority to protect people now,” DeBeauvoir said.

States and counties move to protect their citizens

States rush to remove data on residents from websites
USA Today
States across the USA are furiously removing sensitive data from official websites.

Scanned documents pulled off Web site
Lorain County Recorder's Office removed scanned public documents from its Web site amid uproar over the possibility of identity theft.

When private info is compromised, the public needs to know - quickly
Ingham County, Michigan
3.5 million images of public documents taken off line, just weeks after the office became the state's first deeds office to make such documents available online.

Judge orders removal of deeds from Web
Monmouth County, New Jersey

Reno County, Kansas
The Social Security number belonging to the county's top law enforcement officer was available online. . .

Florida data did go to India
Convergys and the Department of Management Services admitted Wednesday that personnel data for some state employees wound up in India.

Site makes identity theft possible, lawsuit says
Ohio

New Mexico County Removes Records from the Web
County officials removed the information from the Internet because they feared that identity thieves could exploit the records from anywhere they had online access.

An opportunity to meet the companies and criminals that seize, aggregate and trafic in public records.

Learn:

• Who seizes your records with bulk FOIA demands
• Who mines the records from official websites
• Who exploits your constituents and how
• How to stop them at the source

This is a companion article to Government Working Furiously to Take Documents Offline

Put this one in believe it or not category. If counties can sell access and foreign aggregators can sell the documents, why can't a young entrepreneur from Ohio profit from selling public records in an Ebay auction?

Examples of records belonging to local and national politicians are provided including their SSN, Children's names and Schools, Home Address and Bank account information.

His price may seem high, but he does offer easy no interest financing. .

Reagan Dunn, a councilman for the county said, ""Clearly this is an avenue that people have been using to perpetrate the identity theft it's not thousands of records; it's actually millions of records, millions of pages of records that we have online here in our index."