FORT WORTH (1080 KRLD) - A Fort Worth woman is in jail for using a government computer without getting anyone's permission.
Carolyn Rodriguez, 55, made investigators' work easy by recording herself in the act and posting it onto YouTube.
Rodriguez has a YouTube channel called Carolina in Fort Worth; and as of Tuesday afternoon, it had more than 6900 followers.
On that YouTube channel, Rodriguez regularly posts videos of her confronting police officers as they're doing their jobs.
Last week, she posted a video of herself walking into the Tarrant County Facilities Management construction office, which was left open and unattended.
She sat down at a computer, pulled up her YouTube channel, left a note saying "Carolina in Fort Worth was here" and left.
She is under arrest for breach of computer security.
KRLD legal analyst Trent Loftin says while the spirit of the law is intended to hold people responsible for accessing sensitive information on government computers; by the letter of the law, she could be looking at some significant time behind bars.
"Since it's a county computer — a government computer — it's bumped up to a state jail felony where she's facing, in essence, up to two years in state jail prison for this action," Loftin says.
Loftin says since Rodriguez was not using the computer to look up sensitive information, this could be a challenging case for county prosecutors to win, should they move forward with it.
"In this case, she went in and used a computer to look up public things — in this essence a YouTube video — or some other things that normal public would have access to," says Loftin.
As of Tuesday afternoon, Rodriguez was locked up in the Tarrant County Lon Evans Correction Center on $750 bond.