Cleveland Adult Entertainment: ASBO identities kept secret to protect human rights
The Gazette asked Cleveland Police to release photos and details of eight individuals who have recently been given ASBOs so they could be published in the paper.
But the force declined – even though all eight are currently on full public view on Cleveland Police’s website.
Force chiefs said that releasing ASBO details to the Gazette would not be “proportionate”, and that they had to consider issues of human rights and data protection.
They added that Cleveland Police was the only force in the country to publicise ASBOs on its website.
But the decision was slammed today, amid claims the public deserved every opportunity to see that justice had been done.
The ASBOs included prohibitions on behaviour such as harassment, being drunk and disorderly, begging, possession of drugs, abusing council staff, prostitution, pretending to threaten suicide, improper sexual advances, throwing stones, carrying knives and spitting.
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