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From The Agitator:
http://iheartejade.blogspot.com/
The Free-Lance Star publishes names and addresses of CHP holders and says it has a right to publish information that is publicly available, yet a Virginia woman is arrested when she does essentially the same thing -- except it's about cops, not CHP holders.
From The Agitator:
Her blog:A Virginia woman has been arrested for blogging about the members of a local drug task force. The charge is harassment of a police officer. She apparently posted on the blog one officer’s home address, as well as photos of all members of the task force, and a photo of one officer getting into his unmarked car in front of his home.
What do you think of this woman’s arrest? Photographing, writing about, and criticizing police officers, even by name, should of course be legal. But it’s a tougher call when the officers in question work undercover. Naming them, posting their photos, posting their addresses, are all pretty clearly efforts to intimidate them, and it isn’t difficult to see how doing so not only makes it more difficult for them to do their jobs, but may well endanger their lives.
The woman says all of the information on her blog was publicly available. If that’s the case, and all she did was aggregate already available information, I’m inclined to think she shouldn’t have been arrested.
http://iheartejade.blogspot.com/
The Free-Lance Star publishes names and addresses of CHP holders and says it has a right to publish information that is publicly available, yet a Virginia woman is arrested when she does essentially the same thing -- except it's about cops, not CHP holders.