<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Well stated! No more bureaucracy!</div><div><br></div><div>Dana<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><br>On Mar 27, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Leslie Chapman <<a href="mailto:opera_70@yahoo.com">opera_70@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I just fired this off to my state Senator, hope it meets every one's approval;<div><br></div><div><div style="font-size: 10pt;">Dear Senator Arnold Roblan;</div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2">My favorite genealogical list has had the following bill brought to our attention;</font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2">House Bill 2093</font></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><a 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><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><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><div style="font-size: 10pt;"><br></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2">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><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2">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><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"><font face="arial" size="2"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size:
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