May 102012
Randy Ludlow reports:
Law-enforcement agencies are not required to publicly identify police officers when they face credible threats of physical retaliation for their on-the-job actions, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled today.
The officers’ constitutional right to privacy supersedes Ohio’s public-records laws, the justices unanimously ruled in the appeal of a case filed by The Cincinnati Enquirer against the Cincinnati Police Department.
Read more on The Columbus Dispatch.
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Remember, most police are cowards, not usually the heroes they make themselves out to be. They have to hide.