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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On 4/22/07, Sheldon Rampton sheldon@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
| Sheldon Rampton | Research director, Center for Media & Democracy (www.prwatch.org) | Author of books including: | Friends In Deed: The Story of US-Nicaragua Sister Cities | Toxic Sludge Is Good For You | Mad Cow USA | Trust Us, We're Experts | Weapons of Mass Deception | Banana Republicans | The Best War Ever
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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
On 4/23/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
It's generally that the newspaper has a policy of not publishing the names of juvenile offenders, not that they're not allowed to.
In the UK, publication of the names of an offender under the age of 18 is normally restricted (Children and Young People's Act 1933, I think). Judges can remove the restriction and have done so in some highly publicised cases. Likewise, there are legal restrictions to revealing the names of rape victims and some other people whose identity is not supposed to be published.
I doubt a UK-based editor would be protected from the legal consequences (contempt of court proceedings) of revealing restricted information just because Wikipedia is hosted in Florida.
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.
Ec