Second, and more directed at you
Quoting Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman(a)hotmail.co.uk>uk>:
That's as may be - though I will point out that Carolyn Doran would
not even have stood up to a Google search, let alone a criminal
records check - the whole-shooting-the-boyfriend thing wound up in
the Washington Post. Seems like it took the wikinewsies approximately
5 minutes to find the archived stories. From there, again, it seems
as though plenty of US states keep online free jail records, easily
accessible, and certainly plenty do keep records of current inmates
of the state prisons, again accessible online and for free (including
Florida, which have a very dandy "Find an inmate" search button)!
Remarkable!
The one thing I don't understand is this. Jimbo says he had no
knowledge of this whole Carolyn Doran business until it hit The
Register. That's fine, I guess we have to believe that. Did no one
bother to tell him? Evidently not. I refuse to believe that no one at
WMF knew anything until The Register made their phone call/published
the story. What I am asking is who knew what when. The whole reaction
to this has been one of confusion - this was always going to hit the
press anyway, so surely a more coordinated response could have been
planned?
Two points: first, not everyone bothers googling the names of people
they know.
Furthermore, there appear to be multiple people by the name of Carolyn Doran
who have an internet presence, so even a quick google search wouldn't make it
completely obvious unless you had some idea what you were looking for. Second,
and more directed at you, you still haven't clarified whether you knew about
this beforehand which you seemed to claim on Jimbo's talk page. Did you know
about this?