Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebekah Jones

Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by curlypaul924 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @03:48PM (#25814805)

> And to date the state hasn’t even made their charges public which seems ridiculous. ‘I have an arrest warrant for you, but I can’t tell you the charge’.

As I understand it, the police can tell _her_ the charges, but they cannot make the details of the warrants public until she has been processed. After that it becomes public record with the court.

This is itself an issue, because websites scrape court documents and re-publish the information as a service. They then charge a service fee to have the information removed, even in cases where the charges have been dropped.

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Re:Arrest warrant issued for ex-Florida data scientist Rebek... by fdschoeneman on Monday January 18, 2021 @11:17PM (#25829943)

I don't know what the laws or policies are in Florida for such things. I can see a privacy right being violated I the case where a state reveals the subject of a warrant that could be mistakenly issued. For example, if someone used my wifi to download child porn and the cops executed a search warrant on my computers, I would absolutely not want want them to make any public statement.

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