The DC Open Government Coalition issued a statement August 22 drawing attention to the Washington DC law requires all arrests to be made public.
The statement came out as a reminder to the government following after the Trump Administration take-over of the DC Police Department.
The Coalition noted:
The public’s right of contemporaneous access to arrest records under statutes like D.C. Code § 5-113.06 and the First Amendment, protects our Fourth Amendment right against illegal search or seizure and our Fifth Amendment right to due process of law.
The full text as well as the specific language of the law are below.