Information wants to be free ...

... which is why newspapers are — to put it in eloquent 1990s language — royally screwed. But that's not the topic of this particular post. This particular post is about my current obsession with semi-punk band Rise Against.

No, wait. That's not it either.

Ah, here we go. Mr. Pratt's police report, please come forward! Actually, it won't be, at least for a while. The Herald's Janice Peterson has request the document about the LDS Church seminary principal-turned sex-assault suspect, but county attorney Jeff Buhman doesn't want it released into the public.

I chatted with Buhman this morning, and he says his fear is that Pratt won't get a fair trial if the public is flooded with information about the case. Sex charges are going to haunt this guy for the rest of his life whether he's guilty or not and Buhman says he tries to operate on the "presumption of innocence." There's something a little noble about that, I suppose though given the current state of media coverage, the public information genie is out of the bottle.

Also, word on the street from other sources is that there aren't any other cases coming forward involving Pratt, but the long list of locations he allegedly took the teen is likely to get longer.

What do you think, police report should be public? Kept concealed until the trial is over?