I know newspapers generally don’t print the names of victims of rape victims or, IIRC, juvenile offenders. But say I get mugged in the parking lot at the Waffle House - do they need permission to put my name in the paper?
It seems like I mostly see names of crime victims in articles where they obviously granted an interview of some kind. If something “exciting” happens to me, will my phone be ringing off the hook?
Obviously depends on where you live - e.g. the amount of media reports in the US that mention a victim’s full name seems to indicate that the information is given out without needing to ask for permission. In the other hand here in Germany the case is quite different - as a crime or accident victim, or a crime suspect you are referenced only with information that does not identify you as a person (“26-year old Alfons A. and 28-year old Berta B. from X-town were convicted of robbing a 42-year man from Y-burg in Z-street, in February this year”.)
In the United States, police crime reports are public records. Anyone can go read them. There’s no right of privacy or need to ask permission.
Small-town newspapers often run columns of summaries of all police reports. Such newspapers are free to use the names of the people mentioned in the reports without specific permission.