{"id":1517,"date":"2012-03-29T14:46:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=1517"},"modified":"2012-03-29T14:46:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T18:46:19","slug":"sanford-police-threaten-to-arrest-reporters-zimmerman-still-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2012\/03\/sanford-police-threaten-to-arrest-reporters-zimmerman-still-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanford police threaten to arrest reporters, Zimmerman still free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sanford Police threatened to arrest members of the media who approach or ask questions off the clock.<\/p>\n<p>A press release sent out Wednesday said police would arrest journalists who attempt to make contact with city employees during non-working hours. They asked to not approach, call or email the city employees at home.<\/p>\n<p>Some city staffers have been &#8220;followed or approached at their home or in settings outside of working hours,&#8221; the release said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Law enforcement officials will not hesitate to make an arrest for stalking.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Florida statute on stalking does not include language that would provide special protection to city officials or prevent media from asking questions.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford police did not immediately return any calls Wednesday and Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2012\/03\/29\/2720590\/sanford-police-threaten-to-arrest.html#morer\">Sanford police threaten to arrest reporters &#8211; Miami-Dade &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanford Police threatened to arrest members of the media who approach or ask questions off the clock. A press release sent out Wednesday said police would arrest journalists who attempt to make contact with city employees during non-working hours. They asked to not approach, call or email the city employees at home. Some city staffers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,22],"tags":[451,983,989,930,974],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1518,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}