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Love Connection

Reason Staff | 8.24.2009 5:12 AM

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The Fort Myers, Florida, police department fired clerks Carol Bass and Helen Leman for allegedly misusing law enforcement databases. The two searched for information on people that Bass was considering going out with after she met them through a dating service.

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