David Trinko: How Marsy’s Law stifles your right to know

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David Trinko: How Marsy’s Law stifles your right to know

Your right to know and a victim’s right to privacy are at cross purposes now. Journalists in Ohio are stuck in the middle, with a public eager for information and anxious to label us as lazy or stupid. In reality, we’re reckoning with a law with more power than we’d expected. Marsy’s Law for Ohio is making it increasingly difficult to tell you the whole story when crimes are committed. It gives the victims of crime the right to redact “personal …