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They have already been prosecuted and convicted. You can't "expunge" a crime off your criminal record unless you've been convicted of it. It's ok to publish peo
by cronix 8y ago
They have already been prosecuted and convicted. You can't "expunge" a crime off your criminal record unless you've been convicted of it. It's ok to publish people who have been convicted of a crime. That's public info. It's NOT ok, to still have it published when it's expunged from your record. The article is specifically discussing expunged crimes.
- danso 8y agoThat said, u/nostromo raises a good tangent. When I worked at my college newspaper, which was before Google had become so dominant a fact of day-to-day life, there was no second thought about publishing the name, age, and address of suspects in the police blotter (the daily listing of suspects arrested, mostly for public intox). The age and address were part of the arrest record, and important to disambiguate between similarly-named people. Back then, it hadn't yet occurred to society how Google effectively made info permanently, globally, and efficiently searchable. Nowadays, I think the status quo for college newspapers is to not print names: https://www.poynter.org/news/college-papers-dropping-arrestee-names-crime-blotters https://www.poynter.org/news/college-papers-dropping-arreste...