{"id":7785,"date":"2015-01-08T14:31:38","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T14:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7785"},"modified":"2015-01-08T14:31:38","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T14:31:38","slug":"county-official-wont-sue-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=7785","title":{"rendered":"County official won't sue after all"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Kirby Delauter says he’s sorry. He erred in threatening to sue a local newspaper for using his name without “authorization.”<\/p>\n

He’s a Frederick County, Md., county councilor who got upset with a local newspaper’s account of things he had said in public. So he threatened to sue the paper and any reporter who used his name without first getting permission — from Delauter himself.<\/p>\n

That’s a very bad call, councilor.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/01\/07\/kirby-delauter-apologizes\/<\/p>\n

Today he says he’s sorry. He won’t sue. Delauter understands what the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution provides, which among other freedoms is a free press.<\/p>\n

Delauter said\u00a0in part: \u201cOf course, as I am an elected official, the Frederick News-Post has the right to use my name in any article related to the running of the county \u2014 that comes with the job. So yes, my statement to the Frederick News-Post regarding the use of my name was wrong and inappropriate. I\u2019m not afraid to admit when I\u2019m wrong.”<\/p>\n

The threat drew a loud chorus of criticism from around the country.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/2015\/01\/07\/a-lesson-on-public-service-101-mr-councilor\/<\/p>\n

So, with that, he has apologized.<\/p>\n

Apology accepted, Mr. Delauter.<\/p>\n

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Kirby Delauter says he’s sorry. He erred in threatening to sue a local newspaper for using his name without “authorization.” He’s a Frederick County, Md., county councilor who got upset with a local newspaper’s account of things he had said in public. So he threatened to sue the paper and any reporter who used his … Continue reading County official won't sue after all<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[1738,1805,1806,1812,2687,3424],"class_list":["post-7785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-first-amendment","tag-frederick-county-md","tag-frederick-county-news-post","tag-free-press","tag-kirby-delauter","tag-open-meetings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}