Sharon Coolidge reports: A justice reform bill endorsed by Gov. Ted Strickland and passed by the Senate designed to prevent wrongful convictions also includes a controversial measure to expand the collection of DNA samples to those arrested on felony charges. Currently, Ohio only takes DNA from people convicted of felonies and violent misdemeanors. Law enforcement…
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St. Paul man sentenced in Duluth for Internet crime
Jana Hollingsworth of Duluth News Tribune reports: A University of Minnesota Duluth student convicted of threatening to damage his cousin’s social networking and e-mail accounts to obtain nude photos of her over the Internet was sentenced Friday to electronic monitoring and probation. Judge Heather Sweetland sentenced Anthony Phillip Dzik, 24, of St. Paul to 45…
Grade the Obama administration’s work on privacy!
From EFF: The Privacy Coalition is inviting the public to give the Obama Administration a grade on its privacy work thus far. Visit the Privacy Report Card page and vote to give the administration a grade anywhere from an “A” to an “F” — or, if you prefer, an “Incomplete.” https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/09/grade-obama-administrations Direct link to consumer…
AP picture of wounded Marine sparks debate
David Bauder and Pauline Jelinek of Associated Press report that a picture of a soldier, Lance Cpl. Joshua “Bernie” Bernard, lying mortally wounded in Afghanistan, taken by AP photographer Julie Jacobson has set off another debate about both coverage of the war and a grieving family’s right to privacy. You can read AP’s coverage of…