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Washington State Site Revealing Police Data Ruled OK

Posted by timothy on Saturday July 12, 2003 @02:43AM from the checks-and-balances dept.

gnarly writes "NYT reports that the courts have struck down a law which censored posting of personal data of police officers, (home phones, SSN, etc, obtained from public sources) on a single website." (The decision in this case took place in U.S. District Court in May.)

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Re:Precedent contradists this by Chmarr · 2003-07-12 06:29 · Score: 2, Informative

IIRC, there is a anti-abortion group that was putting information on abortion doctors on the web that was forced to remove the site as they were used for murdering the doctors listed. I wish I could remember the name of the site, and searching for anti-abortion or pro-life will get me more hits than I care to wade through. Anyone remember the case I'm talking about here?

Sorry, you don't recall correctly. The right to list the abortion doctor's names was upheld in just the same way in the case in the article. you can visit the site here if you really want to. Doctors names and addresses are on this page.