Montgomery County District Attorney plans to announce DUI arrests between Xmas and New Years on his Twitter page. This CNET article turned me on to what appears to be a Texas trend of tweeting arrests. Montgomery County just focuses on DUIs but Denton police posts all arrests though not names just the mug shots.
Denton’s approach seems fairer as why should more shame be applied to those arrested for DUIs’ than other types of arrests?
Tags: dui, Linkedin, police, social networking
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December 27, 2009 at 5:51 pm |
I think from we should tweet all the crooked public officials and corrupt attorneys .
Tweet all the cops beating on people also during a traffic stop.
December 28, 2009 at 3:19 am |
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