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File #: O-060-21    Version: Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed
File created: 2/8/2021 In control: Metro Council
On agenda: 3/25/2021 Final action: 3/25/2021
Title: AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CHAPTER OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT CODE OF ORDINANCES ("LMCO") TO PREVENT THE UNAUTHORIZED PUBLICATION OF INDIVIDUAL'S PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN A PRACTICE COMMONLY KNOWN AS "DOXING" (AS AMENDED).
Sponsors: Anthony Piagentini (R-19), Markus Winkler (D-17), Mark Fox (D-13), Marilyn Parker (R-18)
Attachments: 1. O-060-21 V.2 03.17.21 - Doxing.pdf, 2. O-060-21 PROPOSED CAM 03.17.21 - Doxing.pdf, 3. O-060-21 V.1 021121 Malicious Publication of Personally Indentifying Information-Doxing.pdf
ORDINANCE NO.______, SERIES 2021
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AN ORDINANCE CREATING A CHAPTER OF THE LOUISVILLE/JEFFERSON COUNTY METRO GOVERNMENT CODE OF ORDINANCES ("LMCO") TO PREVENT THE UNAUTHORIZED PUBLICATION OF INDIVIDUAL'S PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION IN A PRACTICE COMMONLY KNOWN AS "DOXING" (AS AMENDED).
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SPONSORED BY: COUNCIL MEMBERS PIAGENTINI, WINKLER, FOX, AND PARKER

WHEREAS, the Legislative Council of the Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government (the "Council") takes notice of a practice among its citizens of the unauthorized publication online of an individual's personally identifying information, commonly known as "doxing"; and
WHEREAS, doxing is understood by Council to be threatening behavior, in that it publishes certain personal information of Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Government ("Metro") citizens in an effort to threaten or intimidate Metro's citizens; and
WHEREAS, the unauthorized publication of an individual's personally identifying information, through online "doxing" which can constitute true threats that lead to real-world intimidation and emotional distress of that individual, members of that individual's immediate family, or domestic partners of that individual; and may ultimately lead to a violent confrontation; and
WHEREAS, Council is concerned with the unlawful publication of personally identifying information of a person with the malicious intent to threaten or stalk that person, an immediate family member of that person, or a domestic partner of that person; and

WHEREAS, there have been multiple examples of city employees and private citizens in Louisville and across the Commonwealth who have had to move, take additional personal protective measures, and suffered mental anguish and financial stress due to doxing; and
WHEREAS, the Council desires to prohibit by ordinance the intimidation and unlawful publication of a person's personally identifying information where such publication places that pers...

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