Arrested Editor: Don't Purge Online Arrest RecordsDavid McCumber's DUI arrest provides a singular look into the pressing matter of digital arrest records' permanence.
Even if he could, this is one story David McCumber won’t edit.
On Saturday morning, Sept. 24, McCumber, the editorial director of the Hearst Connecticut Media Group, was charged with driving under the influence in Wilton. He is due Oct. 4 in state Superior Court in Norwalk. And like any DUI arrest, the news appeared in police blotters in several media outlets.
The incident also drives home a complex question that many in McCumber's profession wrestle with every day: How to handle the permanency of digital arrest records?
“What happened to me has nothing to do with how I feel about this,” said McCumber, editor of The Advocate and Greenwich Time. “The Internet is a much different platform. But I don’t think we should make any move to close records or to direct legislation to purge records. That’s a slippery slope in the wrong direction.”
With more newspapers going online, information from police blotters and other digital records remain forever accessible in cyberspace....
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