Media News - Monday, July 07, 2008
Hawaii journalists get shield law - inspired by Judith Miller?
Last Wednesday, Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle signed into effect a law granting Hawaii journalists limited protection from telling the police or the courts their sources for news stories. The law protects any reporter who works, or who has ever worked for a newspaper, magazine, news agency, radio station or television station. It covers online writers such as bloggers only if they hold a similar job to traditional journalists or regularly publish news in the public interest. Hawaii prosecutors agreed to the measure after carving out exemptions for defense of felony cases, civil actions involving defamation, public safety, source consent to disclosure, and when the person claiming the privilege has observed the alleged commission of a crime. No Hawaii journalists have been imprisoned for not naming their sources, but the bill's sponsor, State Rep. Blake Oshiro, said he wanted to enact a shield law before the situation arose, saying he was inspired by the federal case of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller. Miller was jailed for 85 days in 2005 for refusing to identify which Bush administration officials had talked to her about CIA operative Valerie Plame. (Editor and Publisher)
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