We Demand Your Internet Search Histories: from Every Device You Own!

 They want it all--every item "searched-for" from every computer or device we own.  In addition to thousands and thousands of documents from the county based upon hundreds of search terms that will require a superhuman (and expensive) effort to find, produce, analyze, and redact.

Yes, these are the demands being made of multiple commissioners in the wake of a lawsuit filed 175 miles away from Pensacola by the medical examiner against two area funeral home directors.

And now commissioners are getting dragged into this spat like dolphins caught in a longline tuna fishing hunt.

And they are requesting the search histories from four commissioners from every computer and electronic device we own.  What??

How would one even capture such data?  I have no idea.  But more importantly--these sorts of things are not public records and more importantly are not germaine to this fight.  I would venture a guess that production of such personal items would require a search warrant and probable cause that an actual, serious crime was committed before such broad brush, invasive, Orweillian type of demands would ever be countenanced.  I mean, this is the sort of thing FBI gets from google to investigate suspects arrested on suspician of serial killings, like that weirdo in New York --Rex Heuermann.

I mean--as crazy as our country and some litigation is getting today in some cases-----and it is chilling------this request is just way too broad and onerous.  

Yes, yes.  I know some are upset that letters were sent and published describing hideous things happening to bodies and these letter writers' personal/professional opinions on supposed mistreatment of these bodies.  I get that.  I read the letters.  But these letters were sent and so far as I understand it many of the allegations were true which prompted some reforms in some processes at the ME office.  That's a good outcome, right????

But no.  Now we are attempting to do a scorched-earth, take no prisoners, gigantic gill-net fishing expedition because somebody got her feelings hurt.  Garbage.

Thankfully  the county produced a four-pager yesterday to request the judge to quash this nonsensical, ridiculous, outrageous "demand" by the Medical Examiner's lawyer.  Read it, below.