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Clerk Charged with Misconduct for Unlawfully Accessing Information on 'Joe the Plumber'
A records clerk in Ohio has come under fire for accessing information on "Joe the Plumber" through a statewide database.

Cristina Corbin
FOXNews.com
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

A records clerk in Ohio has been charged with gross misconduct after she allegedly used a state database to access information on the man famously known as "Joe the Plumber," the Toledo police department confirmed to FOXNews.com.

Julie McConnell, a long-time records clerk with the department's investigative services bureau, allegedly used the database -- called the Law Enforcement Automated Data System or LEADS -- to access information on Joe Wurzelbacher.

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Similarly, a state agency director in Ohio has also come under under fire for reportedly authorizing a check on a state child-support computer system to determine if Wurzelbacher was up-to-date on any ordered child-support payments.

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Similarly, a state agency director in Ohio has also come under under fire for reportedly authorizing a check on a state child-support computer system to determine if Wurzelbacher was up-to-date on any ordered child-support payments.

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Jones-Kelley said such background checks are not unusual.

"Our practice is when someone is thrust quickly into the public spotlight, we often take a look," she said. "Our practice is to basically look at what is coming our way."