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After Minnesota shooting, some states are more tightly guarding officials' personal information

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After Minnesota shooting, some states are more tightly guarding officials' personal information.

One Minnesota legislator was killed and another wounded in their suburban Minneapolis homes last weekend .

Vance Boelter is in federal custody facing murder and stalking charges in the shooting death of Melissa Hortman and her husband.

In Colorado , at least 31 elected officials have filed requests to remove their personal contact information.

Illinois State Board of Elections stopped publishing the street addresses of candidates for political office on its website last year .

Lawmakers also passed a second law which removes the personal phone number, home address, and property or tax records of a judge or their spouse from public view.

In 2020 , a gunman posing as a delivery driver shot and killed the 20-year-old son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in New Jersey and injured her husband.