[WikiEN-l] BLPs--some ideas

[Sheldon Rampton]

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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