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An assault on the First Amendment? Yes. But also a lesson in the ethics of reporting police news.

Summary by Media Nation
Red Bank, N.J. Photo (cc) 2008 by Jazz Guy. Now here’s an interesting dilemma. A digital news organization publishes a police blotter item about an arrest. The arrest is later expunged, and the arrestee contacts the news outlet demanding that any mention of it be deleted. They refuse, though they do add a note saying that the matter had been dropped. But that’s not good enough for the arrestee, and now prosecutors are pursuing criminal charges a…
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Media Nation broke the news in on Thursday, July 17, 2025.
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