[privacy] Escaped Convict Privacy

["Larry Seltzer" <Larry () larryseltzer com>]

c/w News of The Weird (http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/index.html)

For two months late last year after a pair of convicted murderers
escaped from Sudbury prison in England, the local Derbyshire police
refused to release their pictures. According to the police, "Photographs
of named people that are in police possession are classed as data, and
their release is restricted by law" to instances where there is a
"proper policing purpose." Derbyshire authorities said that since the
escapees had probably left the area, there was no such purpose, and the
photographs should be kept confidential. [Daily Mail (London), 1-5-07] 
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