From: njusps
Re: ATS/ACS Municipal database needs legislative control
Date: 11/04/2005
Dear Sir or Madam,
The U.S. Postal Service is secretly using derogatory court data in the ATS/ACS database to make adverse employment decisions on U.S. Postal employees without their consent or knowledge. There should be legislative control over this. Postal employees are being harassed, belittled and prejudicially judged by their Postmaters and Supervisors because of data received in the ATS/ACS Municipal court database.
On September of 2005, I was suspended from the U.S. Postal Services when derogatory court data related to my dismissed offense charge was learned by the USPS accessing ATS/ACS (Exhibit 4). As a result of this, I desited to resign. I have been treaded unfairly by my employer and co-workers because of the uncontrolled use of false court data written about me from a offense charge that happened off company time and property.
The ATS/ACS gives instant access to Municipal court data on every person who has ever been issued a traffic ticket or criminal complaint in New Jersey, whether or not the charges were dropped or dismissed. The data in ATS/ACS, including derogatory narrative data, social security numbers, and driver license numbers is being subjected to anonymous disclosure to anyone.
In addition, law abiding citizens are not aware that their credentials and derogatory court data written about them are being readily accessed by employers, patrol cars, police stations, courts houses all over the entire state of New Jersey and the U.S.. In other words, people's courts records are following them around, being used to prejudicially judge them without their consent, even when court data did not result in judgement or conviction.
Here are actual print outs of what "ATS/ACS" looks like and how the database is being used to prejudicially judge people.
John H. Adler
Diane B. Allen
Nichoas Asselta
Martha W. Bark
Wayne R. Bryant
Anthony R. Bucco
Barbara Buono
Gerald Cardinale
Andrew R. Ciesla
Richard J. Codey
Joseph Coniglio
Leonard T. Connors
Joseph V. Doria
Nia H. Gill
John A. Girgenti
William L. Gormley
Peter A. Inverso
Sharpe James
Ellen Karcher
Walter J. Kavanaugh
Thomas H. Kean
Bernard F. Kenny
Joseph M. Kyrillos
Leonard Lance
Raymond J. Lesniak
Robert E. Littell
Fred H. Madden
Robert J. Martin
Henry P. McNamara
Joseph A. Palaia
Ronald L. Rice
Nicholas J. Sacco
Paul A. Sarlo
Nicholas P. Scutari
Robert W. Singer
Bob Smith
Stephen M. Sweeney
Shirley K. Turner
Joseph F. Vitale
Loretta Weinberg