Recently the Denver Post published a searchable database of all state employees in Colorado. (The salary database is part of the Post’s on-line Data Center, which publishes a wide variety of useful data.) The database provides the name and the job title of each employee. It does not include home or work addresses, social security numbers, or state employee ID numbers. In response to strong objections from advocates for victims of domestic violence, and other objections related to employee safety, the Post stated that newspapers in other states had published similar databases, and there had never been any safety or violence problems as a result. So here is my bleg: Do VC readers know of any safety of violence problems that have resulted from the publication of a person’s name in an on-line database when: 1. the published information was already a public record (but was not previously available on-line), AND the publication did not disclose the person’s address?