Alright, I saw the thread on if CCW permit where public record depending on the state, and thought I'd post this and see your opinion. The article I read about this was in July, but I was just reminded.
Alright, PA state law apparently makes it so that the County Sheriff is required to send out a notice to the permit holders when their permit is about to expire so they can go renew it.
I'm in Luzerne County, and apparently (at the time the article was written) my County Sheriff wasn't doing it, and a local gun rights guy (who I'd never heard of, and couldn't really find anything on), got the paper to write up about how this was a violation of state law.
Now, the County Sheriff argued that his office doesn't do it for two reasons
a)It costs more then he's got in his budget
b)He's worried about sending out letters since they may get delivered to the wrong address, or people might have moved, and he knows that some guys want to keep the fact that they carry private.
And then there was some bickering about what the law really means.
So:
Should the sheriff be sending out the letters, or is he really protecting the privacy of permit holders?