Johnson City Press: Closing sexual assault records a slippery slope
Robert Houk, Opinion page editor for the Johnson City Press, looks at one of the top legislative priorities of the state's law enforcement this year -- closing records related to sexual assault -- and notes the slippery slope when police start advocating to make crime records confidential. His column is reprinted here with permission: Balancing the public’s right to know and personal privacy is not an easy job. It is something we in the news business struggle with every day. Most of the time we get it right. Occasionally, however, we have gotten it horribly wrong. What we don’t need is the Tennessee General Assembly messing with the state’s public [...]