'Journalists' are stupid

[Mammasaid]

Just browsing my local rag online and this came up;

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19124289.driver...

"If you post the location of police speed traps on Facebook, Instagram of Twitter, you face breaching section 89 of the Police Act."

Meanwhile on facebook;

https://www.facebook.com/cumbriapolice/photos/a.15...

Today our Road Safety Camera vans will be operating in Grange-over-Sands and on the A590 between Levens and Meathop.

[DanL]

Mammasaid said:

Just browsing my local rag online and this came up;

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19124289.driver...

"If you post the location of police speed traps on Facebook, Instagram of Twitter, you face breaching section 89 of the Police Act."

Meanwhile on facebook;

https://www.facebook.com/cumbriapolice/photos/a.15...

Today our Road Safety Camera vans will be operating in Grange-over-Sands and on the A590 between Levens and Meathop.

I haven’t looked into it, but both could be fine. Police could be free to tell you where they’re setting up their mobile vans, whereas doing the same as a member of the public could be in breach of something or other...

[CanAm]

DanL said:

haven’t looked into it, but both could be fine. Police could be free to tell you where they’re setting up their mobile vans, whereas doing the same as a member of the public could be in breach of something or other...

How about posting a link to the Police Facebook page on your local page?

[LukeBrown66]

The info about mobile camera vans is available to all, all you have to do as search.

They operate in strict locations allowed to do so by a certain amount of incidents that qualify their use, and can obviously go anywhere in that zone they state, usually near the 30 sign to maximise profit, not necessarily anywhere near the area where accidents took place to allow it to operate.

[BertBert]

LukeBrown66 said:

They operate in strict locations allowed to do so by a certain amount of incidents that qualify their use, and can obviously go anywhere in that zone they state

Just curious. Allowed to do so by whom? Who sets and enforces those rule?

[QuickQuack]

Plenty of reporting facilities from Waze to other databases and nobody has ever been prosecuted. Flashing a warning, yes, but not for online reports. Journalist is obviously struggling to find something newsworthy so adding 2 and 2 to get 40.

[ellroy]

Same article posted in York Press, I assume it’s been syndicated across ‘sister’ publications and not a concerted effort by the old bill across the country.