Originally Posted by
BearX220
When people are charged with criminal activity, they're named, and the media can report it. There's no such thing as withholding the identities of criminal defendants "until they are on trial."
Quite true. My PD has a press board with all arrests, and it can be reviewed by any member of the media that walks into the building. There are some things that can't be released (i.e. names of juvenile arrests, victims of sexual assaults), but adult arrests are public.