Sheldon Rampton 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-gunshop042007,0,2146... http://archive.seacoastonline.com/news/04102007/nhnews-ph-p-melville.html
Here in Canada they tend to be more strict about reporting the names of juveniles, although the 19 year-old would be considered an adult.
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