# Question about Iowa juvenile justice system
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-iowa-juvenile-justice-system/377390
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 22, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-iowa-juvenile-justice-system/377390 "2006-10-22T01:12:57Z")
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### Author:  [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2006, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-iowa-juvenile-justice-system/377390/1 "2006-10-22T01:12:57Z")
I tried Google and got nowhere.
Hey Hawkeyes, doesn’t Iowa have a confidentiality requirement for juvenile offenders? My hometown paper currently has a story about a 16 year old who was arrested for threatening to burn the high school. The story named him and I thought that was illegal in most states.
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### Author:  [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2006, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-iowa-juvenile-justice-system/377390/2 "2006-10-22T02:01:42Z")
[Smith v. Daily Mail](http://www.oyez.org/oyez/resource/case/357/), a U.S. Supreme Court case from 1979, said that as long as the name was lawfully obtained (asking witnesses, for instance), a state statute prohibiting publication is unconstitutional unless it serves some substantial state interest.