[heliodor]

Are you saying that every crime punishment should automatically include loss of privacy? Cause that's what your statement sounds like.

[tick_tock_tick]

I mean pretty much that's a cornerstone of our legal system. There's a strong bias against hidden courts where someone may be convicted in secret and punished in secret.

[themaninthedark]

I would say that we want to know what crimes our government is convicting people of. Otherwise, you can have the government arrest and convict some one of "secret" charges, perhaps in "secret" courts with "secret" evidence. The convicted just disappeared.

I think we had something like that happen before, it caused a bit of upset.

[AnimalMuppet]

Every crime conviction is a public record, so that ship has sailed.

[ddingus]

That is all a matter of public record. Anyone who doesn't want that can file a motion to have it concealed.

[omginternets]

That's a very bizarre reading of this thread of conversation.

[heliodor]

I didn't read it well, I guess. "Protecting people's public image" sounds much broader than whether an arrest or conviction is public record.