New Mexico court, in two decisions, are essentially sanctioning harassment of hunters and their privacy by ruling their information is "public record".
The Lincoln Journal Star reported:
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Game and Fish Department has been ordered to release information about hunters to individuals who sought the records as part of separate court cases.
A state district judge is ordering the agency to turn over the names and addresses of those who won big game draws between 2015 and 2019 to a Los Alamos County resident who had petitioned the court for the information.
In the second case, the state Court of Appeals said the email addresses of individuals who applied for hunting licenses between 2015 and 2016 must be turned over to former Land Commissioner Aubrey Dunn.
The agency said Thursday that both courts concluded that information collected from the public in connection with the administration of the agency's public duties fall within the definition of public records and are subject to disclosure.
By allowing disclosure of information of private citizen hunters to people with political agendas, it will subject hunters to possible harassment and threats. Frankly, it is nobody's business (especially the government's) who owns a gun and hunts with it.
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