"If You Run a Red Light, Will Everyone Know?"

In the essay by Brad Stone, he argues that the general public can too easily access other people's criminal records. He does execute some credibilty by adding in the example of the Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1997, which says that employers must tells prospective employees of their wish to do a background check. Also, he appeals to the readers emotions by citing one of his friends speeding ticket listed as criminal activity. Most of us would not want our speeding tickets listed that way to future employers. I feel as though the author could have stated his claim, he seemed to just be concerned with getting the reader thinking, rather than make a strong argument agaisnt it.