Ex-Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg used private state database to look up hundreds of people's personal info, tax office says

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49% : The DAVID system is used by criminal justice and law enforcement officials -- including police officers and deputy sheriffs while on patrol -- to quickly access a person's information, including Social Security number, date of birth, addresses, signatures, and medical and disability information.
49% : Byrd said agency officials discovered that Greenberg, who took office in January 2017 and resigned after his arrest in June 2020, made the hundreds of searches after receiving a public records request from the Florida Center for Government Accountability, a government watchdog group, about the former tax collector's use of the DAVID system.

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