Sinaloa State Legislature to Repeal Law Barring Reporters from Crime Scenes Fox News Latino
go to original August 3, 2014

The state legislature of the western Mexican state of Sinaloa said it will repeal a measure, denounced by journalists as a "gag law," that bars reporters from crime scenes and sharply limits the press' ability to cover issues of public safety and criminal justice.

The head of the state legislature's political coordination committee, Jesus Enrique Hernandez, said a bill has been introduced to remove the controversial article from a recently approved law governing the state's Attorney General's Office.

Hernandez said the proposal will be debated on Aug. 21 before the full legislature and that he expects the article will be repealed.

He added that the law was passed Thursday night because legislators had a large number of bills in front of them and did not have time to "notice those kinds of details," adding that similar mistakes are made in legislatures all over the world.

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