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