Florida authorities used an interpretation of a controversial victims' privacy amendment to withhold the names of multiple victims in last week’s deadly bank shooting. The amendment, known as Marsy’s law, is on the books in some form in at least 11 states, according to the ACLU. What effect, if any, does Florida’s interpretation of the law have on the media? And does the public have the right to know the identities of crime victims?
On this week’s edition of Beat the Press, Emily Rooney was joined by Jon Keller of WBZ News, freelance political columnist Jennifer Braceras, Dan Kennedy of Northeastern University and Dante Ramos of The Boston Globe.
