Government computers used to find information on Joe the Plumber

"State and local officials are investigating if state and law-enforcement computer systems were illegally accessed when they were tapped for personal information about "Joe the Plumber."

information on Wurzelbacher's driver's license or his sport-utility vehicle was pulled from the Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles database three times shortly after the debate.

Information on Wurzelbacher was accessed by accounts assigned to the office of Ohio Attorney General Nancy H. Rogers, the Cuyahoga County Child Support Enforcement Agency and the Toledo Police Department.

Direct access to driver's license and vehicle registration information from BMV computers is restricted to legitimate law enforcement and government business.

it was a "test account" assigned to the information technology section of the attorney general's office,