Quote:The Parkland School Board failed to properly redact a document judges ordered them to release. Now, the school board wants the Sun Senteniel held in contempt of court for reporting on their document.

The document ordered to be released by the courts was the school's file on the Stoneman Douglas' shooter. When the school board released the document, two-thirds of the entries were redacted.

Unfortunately for Parkland's school board, they did not know how to use photoshop well enough to redact a document. Readers were able to just copy and paste the text and see the redacted content.

Still, the Parkland School board wants the reporters held in contempt of court. The school board alleges that the reporters intentionally published phrases that were ordered to be redacted by the courts.

Understandably, the school did not want this information released — and that has little to do with protecting the shooter's privacy.

The report revealed every instance where Stoneman Douglas officials failed to properly report or provide assistance to the shooter in a way that might have prevented the deaths of 17 individuals.

Tom Julin, a media law attorney, told the Sun Sentinel that the school board has “no basis” to its claims against the Sentinel.

“The problem is the School Board’s problem and not the Sun Sentinel’s,” stated Julin. “The Sun Sentinel is entitled to publish the information that it lawfully obtained even if that information should have been redacted from the document that was released.”

The failure to properly redact information is just one mistake in a long line of failures on behalf of the Parkland School Board and Broward County. Many county and school officials are named in a lawsuit on behalf of the victims.

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Heh. I know it is sound ridiculous but we back around 2001 I had to redact a document for a legal case against my then company. We printed the document, used a Sharpie to redact, then took a picture, scanned it, then emailed it.

Old skool haxor proof.

(08-07-2018 03:46 PM)Lord Stanley Wrote:  Heh. I know it is sound ridiculous but we back around 2001 I had to redact a document for a legal case against my then company. We printed the document, used a Sharpie to redact, then took a picture, scanned it, then emailed it.

Old skool haxor proof.

Hell I do that to this day. Not worth the risk to do electronically

There's a program called Bluebeam that knocks redacting out the park.