Crime victims: Alabama is wrong to post personal info online

Source: Associated Press


Jeff Martin, Associated Press Updated 2:58 pm, Sunday, April 23, 2017


Tiffany Lawson's ex-boyfriend kicked in her door, beat her and poured hot cooking oil onto her face, back and legs in Birmingham, Alabama.

The 2013 attack replayed in her mind when she tried to sleep in the months that followed, and left her with burns over half of her body. Her ex was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

The Associated Press reached Lawson by phone this week, at the number listed in her online case file at Alabama's publicly accessible website for court records. An AP review of other online case files found Social Securitynumbers, home addresses and other personal information of rape victims as well as children who have been molested.
 
Lawson bristled at the thought of victims' personal information being so readily available.

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