Police might be violating open record laws
From Sunshine Review
November 23, 2008
[edit] Police might be violating open record laws
"Charleston police are violating the state's open record laws by withholding key information about crime victims, witnesses and events from incident reports released to the public, one of the state's foremost experts on sunshine laws said.
After years of releasing crime reports in their entirety, Charleston police recently began blacking out names, addresses, phone numbers and other important details from the documents, claiming the information falls within privacy provisions of the state Freedom of Information Act.
"That's nonsense," South Carolina Press Association attorney Jay Bender said. "There is no justification for that. Once it goes in the public record, there is no privacy aspect to it.""
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