The Atlanta city council and mayor just doxxed and targeted over 100,000 people who signed a petition to put the stop cop city referendum on the ballot.

100k people who were literally just like "the citizens of Atlanta should have a say in this" now exposed via the state to harassment & violence.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/atlanta/names-more-than-100k-who-signed-petition-against-atlanta-public-safety-training-center-now-public/HF4VD4NTC5FFLAC3IXAB3F6NUU/?outputType=amp

Names of more than 100K who signed petition against Atlanta public safety training center now public

There are more than 25,000 pages of signatures that list names and addresses.

WSB-TV Channel 2 - Atlanta

If your takeaway from this is to argue a point that "technically, home addresses are public data so this is perfectly legal," then let me say it plain:

Home addresses. Should not. Be considered. Public.

Not ever, not once, never before, but especially not in a time of increasingly normalized political violence should a private citizen's home address where they and their families sleep and eat be considered or treated as "public data."

People petition "against" cops (not really what the petition was, but that's how the ATL City Govt is painting it), and then the city makes a huge show of releasing petitioners' names, numbers, and addresses out into the world.

If you're a person with knowledge and experience of this world as it currently is and has for some time been, and you don't see that for the threat it is, i really don't know what to say to you.

@Wolven Yes, and the thing is that it's not really the home addresses being published by themselves that is the reason this is bad — it's the fact that the city was publicly making known who specifically had voted a certain way on that petition *and* where they lived, when otherwise votes should be (and are) completely private affairs, and so even if those people's addresses had been public before, the way they had voted on the petition wouldn't have been known and associated with their addresses, and now it is. That's the key, that's what makes this so dangerous: it ties specific people and their homes *to* a contentious political thing