City of Sanford says reporters won't be arrested for asking about Trayvon Martin case

[Newsjock]

Source: Orlando Sentinel

The city of Sanford tonight (Thursday night) decided that reporters won't be arrested for pursuing the Trayvon Martin story after normal business hours.

... The city a little after 7 p.m. rescinded the release and wrote that it "regrets any inconvenience caused by the improvident wording of the Advisory."

Officials gave no reason for their change of heart, which came shortly after an attorney representing the Orlando Sentinel and WFTV-Channel 9 wrote to City Manager Norton Bonaparte Jr. contending that the directive was unconstitutional.

Read more: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/2012-03-29/news/os-trayvon-martin-reporters-no-arrests-20120329_1_answer-questions-sanford-city-employee

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. translation, the top guy called his wife's brother, a lawyer,

who read him the riot act, and suggested that the resulting legal fees would bankrupt the city.

"Oops. Our prior advisory was inadvertently released before its wording was fully vetted. This inadvertent release of a first draft in no way reflects the policy of this city. This early, incomplete and inaccurate draft led to some unexpected and unintended consequences, as well as confusion. We apologize for this inadvertent error."

[zbdent]

2. "won't be arrested" ... but you might think they'd like the use of Obama's re-upping Bush43's

"infinitely detained without charging" ... (not exact wording)

[VWolf]

3. How civil of them