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Over the past ten years, there have been numerous world events that have made headlines across multiple media outlets. There have been new presidents elected, votes concerning gay marriage and Ebola outbreaks, just to name a few. But there is something happening that has seized to catch the attention of the world: murderers are walking free.

According to a report issued by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), 90 percent of murderers who have taken the life of journalists have faced no punishment. As many as 370 journalists have been murdered over the last ten years. Statistically, this means that, 9 out of 10 times, there is no conviction in journalist murders. This lack of justice brings light to governments failing to step up. Nov. 2 was deemed International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists as a way to call for justice.

According to The Guardian, UN and regional intergovernmental bodies are urged to take concrete steps to hold member states accountable to their commitments to combat impunity. And journalists are called on to monitor and report on whether these pledges are implemented.

But these attacks are not just simply attacks on human life, but attacks to what these journalists live to protect: press freedom. The Prairie recently held a Town Hall Meeting regarding First Amendment issues because most are confused as to what the First Amendment truly protects. It protects everyone.

The press is just an outlet to educate and inform citizens. Journalists hold this unacknowledged pact with society to serve them, to inform them, to provide them the truth. But its society as a whole that has these rights. Just because a person walks around with a press pass or owns the title of journalist does not mean they have extra rights, or extra protection under the First Amendment.

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Five Freedoms of the First Amendment
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How the First Amendment applies to Jennifer Lawrence
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By P.J. DAnnunzio / The Legal Intelligencer

The Commonwealth Court has ruled in an apparent issue of first impression that reporting a convicted sex offenders Internet aliases under Megans Law IV would not violate his First Amendment rights.

The decision from a seven-judge Commonwealth Court panel came in response to Richard Coppolinos request to be removed from the sex offender registry. The en banc panel rejected his argument that being required to disclose his Internet identities infringes on his right to anonymous free speech.

Coppolino asserted that since he was convicted and completed his sentence before Megans Law IV was enacted, having to comply with certain provisions of the law constituted retroactive punishment.

Coppolino, convicted of involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, also argued that the provision of Megans Law requiring the reporting of Internet names designed to protect minors was overbroad in the context of his case because his crime did not involve a minor or the Internet, Judge Renee Cohn Jubelirer wrote in the courts opinion.

Judge Jubelirer said under Megans Law, any of Coppolinos Internet identifiers must be included on a statewide sex-offender registry. She added that registry information is disseminated in four ways: among law enforcement agencies; for the purposes of notifying victims and communities; and on a public website.

Because none of the avenues of dissemination of registry information applicable in this case involve disclosure of registrants Internet identifiers, we conclude that the requirement that registrants disclose their Internet identifiers does not burden the right to anonymous speech. Because this provision does not burden a registrants First Amendment rights, it is not overbroad, Judge Jubelirer said.

(Copies of the 52-page opinion in Coppolino v. Noonan, PICS No. 14-1628, are available from The Legal Intelligencer. Please call the Pennsylvania Instant Case Service at 1-800-276-PICS to order or for information.)

P.J. DAnnunzio can be contacted at 1-215-557-2315 or pdannunzio@alm.com. Follow him on Twitter @PJDannunzioTLI.

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