[myself248]

Exactly. Obtaining information about someone is not identity theft. It might be stalking, it might be journalism, it might be credit-reporting, but it is not identity theft.

Pretending to _be_ someone, _stealing their identity_, is identity theft. Absolutely nothing in this story sounds like that, and it sounds like the warrant is entirely farcical.

[hiatus]

I think it depends. Reading the form, if you filled it out and clicked the "I am requesting my own record" button, that's holding yourself out as though you were the person whose records you are requesting, which certainly seems like it could be construed as identity theft.