| Editors' group praises South Carolina decision on driver's license act (Sept. 12, 1997)
Published: September 12, 1997
Last Updated: September 18, 2001
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The American Society of Newspaper Editors praised the decision of a federal
district judge in South Carolina who declared the Driver’s Privacy Protection
Act on 1994 unconstitutional.
"The people’s right to know was protected by this decision," said Sandra
Mims Rowe, editor of The Oregonian, Portland, and president of ASNE, which
joined a half-dozen other news organization, led by the South Carolina
Press Association, in challenging the driver’s act.
"We hope the decision will stop the enforcement of this measure in all
the states," the ASNE president said.
Founded in 1922, ASNE is an organization of the main editors of daily
newspapers in the United States and Canada. There are currently 875 members.
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