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Fantastic letter. Beautifully said.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/27/2013 11:14 AM, Leslie Chapman
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<td style="font: inherit;" valign="top">I just fired this
off to my state Senator, hope it meets every one's
approval;
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Dear Senator Arnold
Roblan;</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
medium;"><font size="2" face="arial">My
favorite genealogical list has had the following
bill brought to our attention;</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
medium;"><font size="2" face="arial">House Bill 2093</font></div>
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href="http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2093.intro.pdf">http://landru.leg.state.or.us/13reg/measpdf/hb2000.dir/hb2093.intro.pdf</a></div>
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<div style="font-size: 10pt;">Our most important concern
is the feature that it appears to seek adding 25 years
to the period of time which the general public cannot
access vital statistics. I understand that many people
may see this as strengthening safeguards against
identity theft and creation of phony identification.
In reality all it will accomplish is making life more
difficult for we in the genealogical community and
have little or no effect on those intended
consequences.</div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
medium;"><font size="2" face="arial">For a mere $39.95
with my handy dandy MasterCard I recently signed on
to a web service that pretty much gives me access to
the vital records of anyone I want information on,
the more recent the information I want the better. I
bought it because a cousin was wanting to contact an
ex wife of her brother; boom for an additional $2.95
for the "details" i.e. exact address and current
phone number. In many states this service provides
actual copies of documents. So if the intent is to
protect identification, it is a case of closing the
barn door after the horse is gone. </font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
medium;"><font size="2" face="arial">A further
objection is that it appears to be creating a new
level of State government at a time when we can't
pay for what we have. If there are changes that
genuinely need to be made in records keeping, they
should be administratively handled within our
current vital statistics organization.</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
medium;"><font size="2" face="arial">Yours
respectfully:</font></div>
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