Jackson County Sheriff
Mike Winters has filed an appeal in an attempt to protect
the personal information of concealed handgun licensees in his
county.
The Medford
Mail Tribune, which has repeatedly editorialized against
gun owners' rights, had sought to gain access to all personal
information on every license holder in Jackson County. They
began seeking this information after learning that teacher Shirley
Katz had a CHL and was fighting a school district policy
that claimed she gave up her right to self defense when she
became a public school employee.
When the Medford Mail Tribune demanded the private information
on license holders (supposedly to find out how many other Jackson
County teachers had chl's) Sheriff Winters refused to turn that
information over. The Tribune sued, and the same Judge who declared
that Katz had no self defense rights ruled that the anti-gun
newspaper could have
access to gun owners personal information.
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