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- From: bill@hacktic.nl (Bill Squire)
- Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
- Subject: Re: Phreaks indicted
- Message-ID: <348eoB1w165w@hacktic.nl>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 18:11:17 GMT
- References: <01GMQ1MDXMKS8WWEO4@delphi.com>
- Organization: Hack-Tic Magazine
- Lines: 33
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- oNEWSDAY1@delphi.com writes:
-
- > Regarding the Secret Service's release of the addresses of the indicted,
- > an indictment is a matter of public record and the addresses become
- > public information. If the Secret Service didn't release the information,
- > they'd be asked for it by the press. Check a news article featuring any
- > sort of arrest or indictment; the address of the accused will appear,
- > nine times out of ten. This is neither incompetence nor maliciousness on
- > the part of the Secret Service, just standard practice.
- > Evan Rudowski
-
- While it may be legal in the USA to publish the names and addresses of
- those just accused of a crime; Is it right? I don't think so and neither
- does the government here (Holland) and presumably in other European
- nations. What if the people involved are NOT GUILTY? And even if they
- are, the extreme for the "crime", sentances one is likely to get in the
- USA should be punishment enough. Even true cop shows, like Dragnet, say
- "the names have been changed to protect the innocent". This whole issue of
- making arrests and convictions a matter of public record is a true
- dis-service to the public at large, the families of the accused, and the
- accused/convicted "criminals" themselves. After having this treatment, how
- do you expect them to make a sucessful re-entry to society? Ex-cons
- cannot, so they are forced to repeat their crimes. What about their
- families and even neighbours? Perhaps several criminal careers can be
- created out of a single public arrest/conviction record. Maybe a little
- more effort in preventing crime, instead of building more prisons is in
- order in the country that has the highest percentage of its population in
- incarcerated. It is all to obvious the vast majority of crime is repeat
- business, which alot could have been prevented by keeping all criminal
- records a state secret, accessable only to the courts.
-
-
- Bill
-