Your Home Address is Not Private, Court Rules

The state Supreme Court last week affirmed a January 2012 ruling that state law has no provisions guaranteeing the privacy of an individual's home address.

Residents of Pennsylvania have no constitutional right to keep their home address private. That was the decision reached last week by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, which affirmed the January 2012 ruling of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania in the case of an Erie man whose candidacy for public office in 2010 was rejected because of his refusal to provide his home address when filing campaign documents. Mel M. Marin had claimed that providing his home address while running for office would have exposed him to threatened or actual violence and have the effect of intimidating him into silence. In dismissing Marin's argument as "absurd," the Commonwealth Court cited the Supreme Court's earlier ruling in a 2003 case where it issued the …

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