David:
Just a correction to the statement that the CIA directors SSN was found on a "Virginia County Site"- the document that is referred to was from a Lee County,Florida, not a Virginia county site.There are no entries for Porter Goss in any of the on-line counties in Northern Virginia.
There is a site from a lady in Virginia that aggressively publishes sensitive documents, or links, of well known persons in an attempt to block various on-line systems from continuing to operate.This lady has caused a lot of problems for the counties that are online, but all counties have instituted additional provisions for subscription access and the additional requirements for access, in no event are the online systems any different from walking into the respective Court Houses and just looking information up. The site this lady posts is a tremendous site for looking up info on anyone- she provides an open door to a lot of information that would take a lot of time to gather if one did not have her site to get it from. Why bother with a county site that requires a subscription to access when  her site dishes it out without any requirements at all? I am convinced that sites like hers do much more harm  than the county sites that require subscriptions in order to access. Her freedom of speech is not to being contested, but discretion should be exercised when dealing with this kind of damaging information. I know as a title examiner I am afforded a lot of what might be called "private " or sensitive information, and as such I do feel it is my duty not to divulge that information to anyone other than those that hire me to perform the search. It is just an ethical obligation we have to protect the information we gather in the process of doing our job. I also understand that others might not have that same standard too, but then I feel we have to do what we can to protect those that pay our bills.
Just my 2 cents worth-(soon to be 6½ cents with the ever rising price of gas and the constant problems Iran has making up it's mind whether to blow something up or let others, the Nigerian banking delema, the cost of copies and online fees going up all the time and the price of a loaf of bread.)
Steve Meinecke