applause] >> joining me now from putnam county the clerk dennis sant and executive county executive mary ellen odellnk you. >> sean: i want to thank you because i thought it was a courageous stand and did it for the safety of your residents in spite of what happened. give us the background. >> we received an foia request as the county clerk did andi and and we protect the people and upholding the law and looked at this and there's really no value to this. we felt na, actually, if we did give that information out, we would be subjecting a lot of our constituents, we would be subjecting them to safety risk. >> and you got the request originally? >> i got the request and i sat on it for a few days, it was just before christmas. and i noticed what happened in rockland and westchester county. my phone started ringing off the wall and got 400 phone calls within three days of the published report and i was listening to many horror stories, women who had orders of protection against abusers, abusive husbands or spouses, and they were exempt as part of the law and now, they find their address and name on a g

. >> the county clerk dennis sand and county executive mary ellen odell. you. >> thank you. >> i want to thank you because i thought it was a courageous stand and you did it for the safety of your residence in spite of what happened. give us some background. >> well, we received a foil question, or our county clerk did. we are a team at putnam county. we consider ourselves to be colleagues and protecting the people and upholding the law and we looked at this and said, there is really no value to this. we felt that actually as if we did give that information out we would be subjecting residents to safety problems. >> i sat on it a few days just before christmas. i noticed what happened in rockland and westchester county. my phone started ringing off the wall. we got 400 phone calls within three-days of the published report. i was listening to many horror stories, women who had orders of protection against abusive husbands or spouses and they were exempt and sealed as par d of the law and now they find their address and their name on a google map. if you hav