Nine days after this segment aired, Wisconsin Senator William Proxmire publicly praised the episode on the U.S. Senate floor. He congratulated producer Steve Heilpern, teleplay writer Jack B. Sowards, story writer/show creator Roy Huggins, NBC and the show's sponsors for "giving the viewing public a chance to see the human side of the law." The entire script is printed in the Congressional Record-Senate. (October 5, 1971, Pages 35003-35009).
Statement prior to the closing credits: On April 25, 1971, (the U.S.) Congress enacted legislation which gives every American the right to know the nature and substance of all personal information concerning him that has been compiled by a private company and to contest and correct any errors he might find in that information. These companies, however, retain the right to investigate any area of a person's private life, relevant to their purposes or not.