After the filming of Minnesota, some states more closely keep the personal information of those responsible

Los Angeles – The legislators of certain states move to abolish their home addresses online directories and Wisconsin legislators are looking for additional security for a session this week after a minnesota legislator was killed and another injured in their suburban houses in Minneapolis last weekend in what Governor Tim Walz described as a targeted political attack.

Vance Boelter is in federal custody confronted with accusations of murder and hunting in the ball death of the former Democratic president of the Chamber, Melissa Hortman, and her husband, Mark. The authorities say he also pulled and injured Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. Boelter, 57, also faces charges of state murder.

The authorities said Boelter had a list of dozens of elected officials from States and elected officials in Minnesota and meticulous notes on houses and people he targeted early on Saturday. He also stopped at the house of two other legislators that evening, according to the police. The authorities say they have found their addresses in a variety of internet research. The website of the Minnesota legislature fertures the addresses of members’ offices in the capital of St. Paul’s state, not their domestic addresses.

On Saturday, the personnel agency of the Northern Dakota Legislative Assembly deleted the addresses of the legislators from their biographical web pages following targeted attacks in Minnesota, said the director of the legislative council John Bjornson.

Most Northern Dakota legislators choose to give a home, commercial or postal box address on their web page, where the public can also find their email addresses and phone numbers.

The abolition of the addresses of elected officials is a difficult decision because they must be accessible, open and transparent, said the Sheriff of the county of Burleigh, Kelly Leben, whose county houses the capital of Dakota of the North.

“I think it is a balance between being a civil servant and the security of myself and my family,” said the sheriff of the elected county.

All home addresses for New Mexico legislators have also been withdrawn from the Statehouse website as immediate precaution, said Shawna Casebier, director of the Legal Legal Bureau.

Personal information on the website had already been limited to the discretion of individual legislators as a result of the shootings behind the wheel in the houses of four democratic states and local legislators in Albuquerque in 2022 and 2023.

In Colorado, at least 31 elected officials have applied for requests to withdraw their personal contact details from a public -oriented state -oriented campaign database called tracer, which was briefly deleted on Saturday so that these requests can be answered.

“We did so by abundance of caution for the security of elected officials in an unprecedented political climate,” said Colorado Secretary of State Jenawold in a statement. The development of Colorado was reported for the first time by Axios.

Wisconsin legislators asked for an additional guarantee for the moment when the State Assembly meets on Wednesday, said Luke Wolff, spokesperson for the President of the Republican Assembly, Robin VOS. Wolff has not detailed what has been requested or what changes can be made.

The Capitol of Wisconsin is one of the most open in the country, with public access seven days a week, no metal detectors, screening control points or security badges necessary to enter. There are galleries in the Senate and the Assembly where the public can see the legislative debate.

Even before the Minnesota shooting, states in recent years have intensified efforts to protect personal information from civil servants in response to high -level attacks.

One day before the murders of Minnesota, Oregon legislators adopted a bill which would prohibit the Secretary of State from Oregon from making the residential addresses of the persons associated with the campaign committee of candidates visible by the public on his system of electronic deposit. Campaign deposits would always be visible online, but the addresses of the domicile would be expounded, unless the person asks the office of the Secretary of State to publish it. A request for public files should be filed to obtain such addresses.

Louisiana legislators adopted a bill last week, which adds elected officials across the state and legislators to the list of persons who may request that their personal information be withdrawn from public archives and Internet. Some judges were already on the list.

Officials can seek to have domestic addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, a date of birth, a matrimonial state, a school or a childcare, their place of worship or the location of the employment of their spouse.

Under the current law, if the person does not comply with the request for dismissal, they can be continued and incur up to 90 days in prison or a fine of $ 1,000 for the offense.

The measure still needs final approval by Governor Jeff Landry, one of Louisiana officials whose private information is protected.

Georgia legislators adopted a law earlier this year to demand that the candidates’ home addresses who submit campaign financing reports, including themselves, be expared by the State of the Ethics Commission. The action took place after a number of Georgia officials were targeted by distress incidents in December 2023.

The legislators also adopted a second law which removes the personal telephone number, the reception address and the property or tax files of a judge or their spouse from the public’s view. The covered files include the recording of voters and the files of the company.

The Illinois Elections Council State has ceased to publish the addresses of the rue des Candidates for a political position on its website last year, spokesman Matt Dietrich said. The legislators had raised concerns after the demonstrators picked up the home of Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, the state librarian, about the legislation he made through the General Assembly which would reduce the financing of the State to the libraries which prohibit the books.

The candidates’ addresses remain on the documents of the Elections Council which are no longer published on the web but accessible via the request for public files.

In 2020, a shooter pretending to be a delivery driver killed and killed the 20 -year -old son of the American district judge Esther Salas in New Jersey and injured her husband at their family’s home. State legislature adopted a law later that year, which exempted home addresses from judges, prosecutors and agents of the current or retired laws of disclosure under the laws on public files. The measure, called Daniel’s law in honor of the judge’s son, also enabled managers to request websites to remove their reception addresses.

Maryland promulgated a law in 2024 preventing individuals from publishing personal information from online judges after a judge of the circuit court was killed by a man a few hours after the judge ruled against him in a divorce case. Judges may submit requests to government entities and private websites to delete information such as telephone numbers, social security numbers and personal emails.

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The journalists of the Associated Press Claire Rush in Portland, Oregon., Jack Dura in Bismarck, ND, John O’Connor in Springfield, Ill., Jeff Amy in Atlanta, Scott McFetridge at monks, Iowa, Sara Cline at Baton Rouge, La., Scott Bauer in Madison, Wis. Annapolis, D. NM contributed to this report.