Personal info on California gun owners wrongly made public

DON THOMPSONThe Associated PressSACRAMENTO (AP) – The California Department of Justice Wednesday, June 29, acknowledged the agency wrongly made public the personal information of perhaps hundreds of thousands of gun owners in up to six state-operated databases, a broader exposure than the agency initially disclosed a day earlier.Rob Bonta, the Democrat who heads the agency and is running for reelection in November, said he was “deeply disturbed and angered” by the failure to protect the information his department is entrusted to keep. He ordered an investigation and promised to fix any problems.“This unauthorized release of personal information is unacceptable and falls far short of my expectations for this department,” he said.The California Rifle and Pistol
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