Misapplied public records privacy rule jeopardizes public safety
Some of you may have noticed that the list of people arrested in our paper has grown considerably. This is not necessarily a reflection of an increase in crime in our area, although we are hearing more reports of crime in Navarre. The real reason the list has grown is because the Santa Rosa County Sheriff’s Office is no longer providing the addresses of people arrested. In the past, we have only included people arrested from Navarre or Gulf Breeze. Because we don’t know where the people being arrested are from, we have to include everyone that is arrested in Santa Rosa County.
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