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Nassau County is being sued over its DWI "Wall of Shame," which was instituted Memorial Day weekend after a cop was seriously injured by a DWI driver after pulling over another DWI suspect. Lawyer Brian Griffin says his client's mugshot and name should be removed from the Nassau County website, saying, "I don't think you need a law degree to understand that this fundamentally goes against a system of justice in which punishment occurs after you've been found guilty." However, Nassau County's public attorney argues, "These are public documents being given public airing," adding that the website stresses that the defendants are presumed innocent.
Lawsuit Over Nassau County "Wall of Shame"
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someone hired a talking dog?
I hope a drunk driver slams into the lawyer...
As much as I don't like it when people are irresponsible, if not stupid enough to drive drunk, I believe this form of public shaming sets a very unsettling precedent for how law enforcement is handled in this country.
Even being booked of a crime is many times enough to make you unemployable or terminate current employment. Although I do believe people should be punished for DUI's, its for due process to do that, not the court of public opinion.
Regardless if they are found guilty down the line or not, the fact that they were picked up for DUI is a public record and therefore I do not see anything wrong with it. Maybe it will discourage some people to take the risk.
It's more than a matter of public record if you're deliberately collecting and posting them to "shame" the suspects. I'd be all for this if it were a collection of those *convicted* of DWI, but we should not be deliberately shaming people who have not actually been convicted of anything yet.
#4: The problem with the idea that this is an "airing of public records" is that it isn't just that. The people up there are seen as guilty because of the simple fact that it's a "Wall of Shame."
If it were to turn out that anyone there who was picked up for DUI was actually sober and is innocent, there isn't going to be a "Wall of Sorry, Our Bad." Even if there was, people will likely only remember the Wall of Shame.
patnugent: i lol'd
I'm totally in favor of the virtual stockade. If the idea of kiiling a family traveling in a car is not enough to stop thses self absorbed asses then perhaps a little public shame will.
There's no excuse for drunk driving and if someone makes the choice to endanger the lives of everyone else around them so that they can get home from a night of good times and partying they deserve to be publicly shamed at the very least. Driving drunk is intent to kill.
"In 2006, there were 13,470 fatalities in crashes involving an alcohol-impaired driver (BAC of .08 or higher) – 32 percent of total traffic fatalities for the year."
http://www.alcoholalert.com/drunk-driving-statistics.html
Better yet-
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liacci-pg,0,5210574.photogallery
This website is great I watch the usually crooked
facial features of most of the perp's.
Something about one's features not being quite
right that makes you a criminal??
Could be the PD camera has some distortions?
Anyway I look at all the faces as a movie which
makes me feel in the mood after awhile to go to
sleep,happy in my quiet solitude as Duke Ellington
would say.