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Trustee objects to policy

Dec 24, 2009





		Katherine White

By Katherine White
DMUSD trustee

As the Del Mar and Carmel Valley local papers all merged, the initial edition included several mean-spirited and slanderous comments about the DMUSD board and about me personally. I have found the "names" the commenters used to be fictitious. While I have no respect for the tone and slanderous nature of the writings, I have even less respect for individuals (or was it just one individual writing under several names) who will not identify themselves.

I have a First Amendment right to know the names of those individuals. Please provide those names and publish them. I expect a policy change that prevents these anonymous comments in the future as well as an apology to everyone and every entity mentioned in the "blogs" as well as to your readers. I expect the policy change to be fully vetted with all staff and published along with the apology. I expect your paper to also describe the efforts taken to identify the contributors, and if they cannot be fully identified, as much information as possible about them printed.

I look forward to your response.

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