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Sheriff's website showing PHP code, preferential treatment for county employees?

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Re: Sheriff's website showing PHP code, preferential treatment for county employees?

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Post by bruceb »

Vexs wrote: post #8
late_groomer wrote: post #2

Going through the code I found it interesting that there's a conditional in there that compares the inmate occupation to nearly half a dozen county positions (SHERIFF, JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, FIREMAN, etc.,), if the occupation matches any of those, then the script refuses to show the mugshot of the inmate. I wonder about the legality of that. You or I get arrested (not convicted, just arrested), our mugshots are posted fo…

I'm curious about that too actually- I suppose from their view it's a safety thing for the officers- which, IMO, is reasonable. Police probably aren't the most popular people in prison, and posting a picture of their face doesn't help.

This a booking photo not a cell assignment. Should be public if the others are.

I actually think the pics should not be public until after conviction for all.

Re: Sheriff's website showing PHP code, preferential treatment for county employees?

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Post by late_groomer »

jacob9706 wrote: post #13

This is a great example of a political who most likely gave the contract for the web site to a company who would in return give him a cut of the profits.

I don't know about that, but look what the company is charging for their hosting: https://www.notiondesigngroup.com/notioncare.html Nice work, if you can get it. I would bet they are on the "Deluxe" package with the way Sarasota throws money around. FWIW, it's just a Joomla website using a RocketTheme template. Custom Website Design, right.

Re: Sheriff's website showing PHP code, preferential treatment for county employees?

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Post by mlinksva »

Why shouldn't the code for all government websites be public? This sort of thing should not be revealed only through a bug.

Not a panacea as they could run different code, and nobody might look at the published code. But those don't seem like reasons to not default to public code for public agencies.

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Post by nkw »

late_groomer wrote: post #2

Going through the code I found it interesting that there's a conditional in there that compares the inmate occupation to nearly half a dozen county positions (SHERIFF, JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, FIREMAN, etc.,), if the occupation matches any of those, then the script refuses to show the mugshot of the inmate. I wonder about the legality of that. You or I get arrested (not convicted, just arrested), our mugshots are posted fo…

Nice work finding this.

Re: Sheriff's website showing PHP code, preferential treatment for county employees?

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Post by brudgers »

late_groomer wrote: post #2

Going through the code I found it interesting that there's a conditional in there that compares the inmate occupation to nearly half a dozen county positions (SHERIFF, JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, FIREMAN, etc.,), if the occupation matches any of those, then the script refuses to show the mugshot of the inmate. I wonder about the legality of that. You or I get arrested (not convicted, just arrested), our mugshots are posted fo…

Florida has rather progressive open public records requirements.[0] However, there are/were [1] exceptions for personal information such as home address for public safety officials under a rather reasonable belief by the legislature that such officials are somewhat likely to be targeted for acts carried out in the course of their work.

[0]: http://myfloridalegal.com/pages.nsf/Main/DC0B20B7DC22B741852...

[1]: Having had a provisional Building Plans Examiner license at one time, my home address was shielded under the exception. Since the exception predates September 11, 2001 it is unlikely to have been removed in the wake of the changes that event engendered.

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