Marjorie Cohn, a professor at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in San Diego, said that a Web site that publishes photos of convicted prostitutes violates the women’s right to privacy.
“It’s an incredible invasion of the privacy of the women, with no real benefit to law enforcement,” Cohn said.
Other than reducing the number of prositutes on the streets of El Cajon, there probably will be no benefit.
Cohn is a feminist law professor and criminal defense attorney. She joins the chorus of “privacy” advocates that find a right where none previously existed when it benefits their clients.
The criminal defense bar pounded The Open Records project when we first published the names, addresses, and photos of convicted sex offenders. We had violated their “right to privacy.”
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