[WikiEN-l] BLPs--some ideas

[K P]

On 4/22/07, Sheldon Rampton <sheldon at prwatch.org> wrote:
>
> Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
> > Most papers are prevented from publishing the names of juvenile
> > offenders.  What would be your source for that information.
>
> That's not exactly true. Papers can publish what they want about
> juvenile offenders. Police and courts may choose not to release the
> names of juvenile offenders, but sometimes newspapers learn the names
> and publish them anyway. Here are a couple of examples:
>
> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-bk-
> gunshop042007,0,2146757.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
> http://archive.seacoastonline.com/news/04102007/nhnews-ph-p-
> melville.html
>
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It's generally that the newspaper has a policy of not publishing the names
of juvenile offenders, not that they're not allowed to.

KP