Lawyers Using Databases To Grab Clients

bc90021 writes "It seems that lawyers are using jail-house email lists to send potential clients letters offering their services. One couple, on finding their son who'd been missing for two days, '...was astonished that deputies failed to call them when their son was arrested -- though contact and medical information was in the young man's wallet -- yet managed to inform people who wanted his business.'"

Comments

Re:Privacy Issue

[Shakrai]

Without private records, you end up...Well, we don't know where you end up. You're gone. And while we suspect the police had some involvement, nobody can find you to waive your right to keep your arrest secret.

You think the blotter exists as a safety mechanism? WTF are you smoking? Nothing in any law requires the police to release your name to the blotter. In fact, when a friend of mine was arrested and "encouraged" to cooperate against his alleged co-conspirators they kept his name off the blotter (for the obvious reasons). Nothing was required to do this other then the cops saying "We aren't going to put him on the blotter".

If you seriously think a police blotter is going to keep you from "disappearing" if the Government decides to make you "go away" you have more faith in it then I do. I think it exists as a shame mechanism to harass people who haven't been convicted of any crime (yet).

Nice to known members of the Bush administration are reading /. to mod such posts up. Send me a postcard from Guantanamo.

WTF does that have to do with anything other then to score a cheap karma-whoring shot aimed at Dubya?

Can't Have it Both Ways

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

You are being sarcastic. I'm sorry, but this is PUBLIC information. If *you* violate the law, your arrest records are a matter of public record. It's funny how you types hate it when PUBLIC records are held back by authorities, but GEEZ, when you don't like it, PUBLIC records should be restricted?

Can't have it both ways, Mr Bleeding Heart.