J110 Covering Crime
  1. What is a blotter?

  2. Are reporters legally allowed to look at it?

  3. What sort of information appears in a jail log?

  4. How might you find out if someone has a previous criminal record?

  5. Are university crime records open to the public?

  6. What is the Buckley Amendment?

  7. Can the names of people under 18 ever be used in crime stories?

  8. Is it OK to go anywhere you want on a crime scene?

  9. Should papers run the names of crime victims (such as people who were raped)?

  10. You are reporting an accident story. You have found out: the names of the people involved, the location of the accident and damages. Is there anything else you should find out

  11. Anything wrong with the following two sentences?

Police charged the Denver man early this morning.

Police picked up a Culver City woman who murdered her husband this morning.