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The question in the title of this post is the headline of this notable new
Vice article. I recommend the lengthy piece in full, and I suspect more than a few readers might have more than a few thoughts on this important modern-day topic. Here are just a few excerpts from a piece with lots of thought-provoking elements:
Public defenders had blogged about their work as long as a decade ago, and tweeting about arraignments wasn’t new, but [Scott] Hechinger and others in New York’s PD scene are responsible for popularizing the trend. As it’s grown, however, criminal justice reform advocates and formerly incarcerated people have started to argue that these posts can put clients at risk of retaliation from judges and prosecutors, violate their privacy, and present ethical quandaries for public defenders talking so openly about their work on Twitter. The optics of white public defenders gaining likes or retweets on stories of Black and brown suffering has also been called i