Remember the wonderful
story of how the Indian police did not respond to complaints for 8 years, because it lost the password from the database, where did these complaints go? Today's case is very similar - the Florida State Department, which issues the license, gave permission to carry a weapon for a whole year without verifying the applicant on the FBI database. Because the person who is responsible for this lost the password.
The alarm was sounded in the higher authority when it was discovered that from February 2016 to March 2017 no one entered the base of offenses to check a potential buyer. At the same time, state licenses were issued regularly - about 270 thousand. It should be noted that this year in Florida, two mass executions took place: at school and at a nightclub, which triggered the growth of gun purchases.
So, according to the
investigation , only two department employees worked regularly with the FBI database. Our heroine is Lisa Wild and the head of the postal service, who did not have any training (read certification) in working with this database.
Lisa stopped using the database in 2016. For forty days she thought, after which she said that - Houston, we have problems - in the Florida Law Enforcement Department. Well, as reported, she did not search for a specific person, but simply sent a letter to the general box of the department’s purchase program. Her letter wandered for a while and did get to a man who could solve her problem. In the end, in response to her reported that Lisa uses the wrong username.
Liza did not respond to the letter. Actually, according to the employee who received the request, he
tried to call her, but Lisa did not pick up the phone. So a year has passed (!) Any new attempts to solve the problem from Liza have not been fixed either.
And the most interesting thing: when Liza was asked - and what the hell? - she
replied that when she was given access to the database, she worked at the post office of the Ministry of Agriculture (in fact, this is the department that gives permission) and still does not understand why she suddenly became responsible for this?
What is the result. Despite the rather large volume of applications, as the anxious administration writes, after a thorough investigation of all applications for the “quiet year”, this check on the base required only 365 pieces. However, the unrest was not in vain - almost all of them (291 pieces) had to be canceled.