Brickbat: Stalker With a Badge
Livingston Parish, Louisiana, sheriff's deputy Dustin August was fired and arrested after his supervisors discovered he had used a police database to stalk and harass someone. August was charged with stalking, malfeasance in office, and making improper phone calls related to domestic violence.
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You need to be higher up the food chain to get to use a government database to harass the civilians.