Community Facebook Alert pages are the new Local News? Legal analysts say No!
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"MVA with multiple injuries HWY 59. Medshore requesting landing zone."
Every community seems to have them nowadays. That Facebook page dedicated to keeping the county or town safe, informed, and pretty much acting as the new wave Town Crier. Now as these pages prosper and become more and more "self important", some legal analysts say that "Mr./Mrs. Admin" better watch themselves or they may face legal action.
Jonathon Derrick is a lawyer based out of Upstate South Carolina, a hotbed of these community watchdog sites.
Mr. Derrick stated that the administrators of these sites, in their haste to "break current news" first, are overstepping their legal boundaries. Posting pictures of accident scenes, giving out information from "trusted sources" about tragic events, or even posting victim names before families have even been notified. All prevalent throughout the collection of these pages. Mr. Derrick confirmed that all these miscues open both the Administrators of these pages and Facebook to possible lawsuits even though some "Administrators" claim government agencies such as Homeland Security give them carte blanche to do as they please.
"I had no idea that Billy had even had an accident when somebody sent me a link to -Site Name Blocked- where they said he was dead because his storage building had blowed up! My poor old mama saw pictures of him laid across that propane tank where he landed before the Coroner even called us!" - Jane Guthro of Iva, SC.
Next week we'll examine what local lawmakers are trying to do to regulate such pages and clamp down on such unprofessional "reporting".
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