All letters look scarlet to the color-blind

Scott Green­field at Sim­ple Jus­tice adds to an ongo­ing dis­cus­sion regard­ing trans­parency in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.
The orig­i­nat­ing post came from Doug Berman who sug­gested the idea there should be reg­is­tra­tion for all con­vic­tions in the crim­i­nal jus­tice sys­tem.
   The next sally came from Bobby Fred­er­ick who raises the very valid con­cerns of mis­takes and poor rep­re­sen­ta­tion.
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Published on 10/18/2009 9:30 pm.
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“P” is (not) for Privacy…

I finally got around to actu­ally read­ing the deci­sion in State of Wis­con­sin v. Michael Sveum instead of view­ing all the typ­ing heads. (On the blog cir­cuit they’re all typ­ing heads, not talk­ing heads.)
At first glance, I felt that the court came to the dif­fi­cult but cor­rect deci­sion — after all, we do drive in pub­lic. I was going to go my merry way when I real­ized that the deci­sion still both­ered me, so sat back and tried to think it through.
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Published on 05/11/2009 12:48 pm.
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Quickie — Privacy issues

Great arti­cle I dis­cov­ered via Gideon (again): ‘I’ve Got Noth­ing to Hide’ and Other Mis­un­der­stand­ings of Pri­vacy . Excel­lent response to J. Posner’s attempts to mol­lify pri­vacy advocates.

Published on 01/05/2009 11:11 am.
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