At least in my state the average person has to go through some legwork to find the driving record of another motorist. Fill out a state DMV form. Pay a fee. Wait several days for a response (if one is granted). The cops, of course, can type it all in to their computer and find out immediately. Of course, access to the database through that route should be for official police business only, not to reply to some smarmy resident's letter.

Did the cop in question use any official police route or method to query the complainer's record? Was it done outside of normal procedure or without proper cause? If so, then I believe that should be considered out of bounds.

As noted by others before me, if the guy did come across as a real whack job in his missive I probably would have just ignored it or sent back a quick "Thanks for your comments" type of reply rather than escalate it further.

Thousand of insurance agents like me can access the DMV records whenever we want.  In fact, I sold three auto polices today and I ran a motor vehicle report on each one.  

It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine

How exactly was Danskey "intimidating, threatening, coercing or discriminating" against Romanoff?  Romanoff ripped off an inchoate bitch note to Leggett about speed cameras -- to wit, they're fascist and Orwellian.  He wasn't threatening Leggett or county officials with any sort of action.  Thus Leggett tells Danskey to handle it and Danskey apparently decides, while he's answering Romanoff's ill-formed complaint, maybe he ought to deal with facts.  What better set of facts to present Romanoff than to tell him what his public traffic citations would have cost him had they been issued by a human officer?  It wasn't like Danskey did anymore than respond with a private communication to Romanoff.  Romanoff is the one who opened his personal data to public view by making sure the news media learned about it.

Having said that, don't think I'm a proponent of speed or red light cameras.  It has been documented that red light cameras can be set so that they're taking pictures of cars which are in an intersection on the yellow.  Speed cameras, like other forms of radar, can give false readings.  They also take pictures of the car and the license plate and, at times, the resolution on those cameras is so poor that identifying the actual car becomes guesswork for someone.  Also, there is no certainty that the person behind the wheels of the car that gets dinged by a red light or a speed camera is the person who ends up getting the ticket.  In retrospect, Danskey probably would have been better off had he stayed away from Romanoff's driving record.  But, I fail to find that Romanoff should have felt intimidated, threatened, coerced or discriminated against in this matter.

Illegitimi non carborundum.