The Seventh Circuit ruled that the Chicag0 Sun-Times broke the law when it published the heights and weights of Chicago cops who acted as fillers in a police lineup, Kim Janssen reported for that newspaper. The cops' height, weight, eye color, hair color and months and years of their birthdates were private information that was improperly obtained from the officers' drivers licenses in violation of the Driver's Privacy Protection Act, the court ruled.
The lineup involved former Mayor Richard M. Daley's nephew, who threw a deadly punch that killed a man, and who was investigated by the newspaper for allegedly getting preferential treatment from the police.
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