City Sues To Prevent Linking To Its Website

Mike writes "In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind case, the Sheboygan city attorney ordered Jennifer Reisinger to remove a link to the city's police department from her Web site. The city went further, she claims, launching a criminal investigation of her for linking to the department on one of her sites, and in response she's suing the mayor and the city. 'The mayor decided to use his office to get back at Jennifer for her efforts in the recall and picked this to do it,' said her attorney, Paul Bucher. It appears this will go to court, and the question will be can a city (or any business or Web property) stop people from posting a link to its site?"

Comments

don't do what?

[JLennox]

oh, this.

Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph?

[theNetImp]

oh be quiet you lunatic ;-)

Oye

[ohtani]

You know a organization knows what they're doing on the web when their landing page is titled NEW PAGE 1 and was made with FrontPage 5.0

Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph?

[oldhack]

...Did the editor even read the summary?

"editor", eh?! You'll learn soon, grasshopper.

Re:Did the editor read the last paragraph?

[Tenebrousedge]

That makes you a maverick, not a lunatic.

You and a hundred fifty million other people.

Okay, so that was a joke: there aren't a hundred fifty million people that vote in this country.