That Florida blogger who anonymously criticized megachurch pastor Mac Brunson and found himself ‘outed’ following a surreptitious sheriff’s investigation (here, here) is suing the county.
A formerly anonymous blogger who criticized his prominent Southern Baptist pastor has sued police and state prosecutors for revealing his identify to the church even though an investigation showed he had done nothing illegal.
Tom Rich and his wife Yvette, until recently members of First Baptist Church in Jacksonville, Fla., for about 20 years, filed a lawsuit April 27 claiming that involvement by government officials violated his rights under the First Amendment of the Constitution.
This isn’t even a close call: Anonymous blogging is weeny-ish — but not a crime. Whether or not an investigation should even have been opened is questionable; whether or not the police should have revealed the critic’s identity to Brunson is not: Error.
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