The Sun Journal’s publication of police records with inclusion of photos remains distasteful. While arrests and other law-enforcement action are matters of public record, a photo of an intoxicated woman just arrested for drunken driving is unnecessarily voyeuristic and humiliating.

The print media’s constitutional freedoms do, arguably, allow such ventures, but a newspaper’s standards should rise above this risky descent into tabloid journalism. Surely there are more important issues, both local and national, that merit column space.

Jenie M. Smith, Auburn