Hard drives in Lancaster

IN MY HOMETOWN of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the local papers write about being order to hand over hard drives belonging to reporters accused of compromising an inter-departmental county communications web site. In early March, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ordered the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal to hand over four hard drives belonging to reporters who wrote stories containing confidential information from on-going medical examinations. The State thinks the reporters got a password to a county-wide communications website and now wants the hard drives to prove their point. The mere fact that the Supreme Court ordered the release of the hard drives to the attorney general sends a chilling effect to newspapers and bloggers.

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