I agree w/ you absolutely. Member's should not have even needed to give
their ethnicity/race to begin w/.
I haven't gone to the site either but if this *is the case(race listed),
it's a bit disturbing & I think AALL should toss any race/religious info on
members completely and immediately, regardless of any good
intentions/reasons for keeping such data on indiv. members.
Just my HO.
Karen Mahnk
At 10:06 AM 1/26/1999 -0600, you wrote:
>This is a copy of the response I sent to Neela after I read her original
>post. I'm curious about how others feel about this...
>__________________
>
>I had not noticed the addition to the AALL website (but then, I don't
>spend much time there), and I would also question making some of that
>information public, if for no other reason than the fact that I can't
>think of any reason to do so. I've never heard of any organization
>publishing individual member IDs or any of the other info you mention,
>and certainly not racial info on individual members. I could see
>publishing a composite view of ethnicity in the organization, but not
>specifics for particular members.
>
>I guess I question making this information available as I would be
>concerned about potential employers using this database to get
>information they aren't allowed by law to ask about...
>
>Have you had any other responses to your post? I'd be curious to know
>what others are thinking?
>
>Judy
>Judith A. Flader
>Washington County Law Library
>Stillwater, MN
>
>Neela Taub wrote:
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I was checking the AALL website and noted that they have now added their
>> internal database to the website and it is searchable.
>>
>> Didn't know if anyone else caught this, but among various fields, including
>> a couple of typos, it also includes racial info, member id, and other
>> information that is probably useful to AALL but questionable for the
outside
>> world.
>>
>> Anyone else puzzled as to what led them to do this? "Value-Added",
perhaps?
>>
>> Regards,
>> nrt
>>
>> Neela R. Taub
>> Practising Law Institute
>> ntaub@pli.edu
>> 212-824-5732
>> 212-824-5982 (fax)
>
>
>
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