easy fix: don’t drive like an idiot, or drive with people who drive thusly.
“right to privacy” is just another chip at the armour of free speech
And don’t give your 18-year old daughter (or son) a Porsche. Give ‘em a Honda... or a Yugo.
How is taking photo’s of accident scenes related to someones free speech?
It should only be done for investigation purposes. We as a society should respect the dead and their families.
I agree that this specific situation could have been avoided entirely if the girl had driven responsibly... and what do you want to bet alcohol was involved, given that it was an older teenager and Halloween?
Although in this case, the crash was probably entirely the result of the girl’s bad decision, but what if she had been brutally murdered instead of dying in a car crash? Then, it’s not her nor her family’s fault, but what would your suggestion have been then - “easy to fix, don’t get murdered”? Also, there has got to be some sort of ‘right to privacy’ - I bet you wouldn’t be happy if someone, without your knowledge or permission, took photos of you doing something you didn’t want the entire world to see you doing and then shared them with others. If it wasn’t for that concept, we wouldn’t be able to prosecute people who put hidden cameras in locker rooms or try to photograph up a woman’s skirt...
That said, what was the family’s complaint against the department when they sued? I’m pretty sure there would be regulations against sharing crime-scene photos with people who aren’t involved in the investigation, and I’m also sure it wouldn’t be too hard to have simply tracked down, via email, who initially shared the images and punished them appropriately... perhaps the entire controversy is because their lawyer tried to make it about ‘privacy rights’ when it should have been about the officer’s misconduct?