When the Right to Privacy Protects Wrongdoers, It's Time for Change

In the past few years, I have been besieged with obstructions masquerading as "privacy rights protections." These obstructions have prevented me from obtaining information necessary to protect myself and my family from people who were violating our rights, even committing crimes against us. Our lawmakers' obsessions with legislating privacy rights have gotten out of hand. Let's stop protecting wrongdoers from theoretical retaliation and instead identify them to the people they wrong so that justice can be had.

Here's a recent example: for three weeks, some teenage pranksters have been calling my home. If someone answers the phone, they shout, "You're a M-----F----, you A-H---" and other warm greetings. If no one answers, they leave their sentiments on the answering machine where my young children might retrieve the message. At first I thought this problem would resolve on its own, but after three weeks, it has escalated. Now the boys are ordering pizzas sent to my house-in addition to shouting obscenities into my phone.