It will never cease to amaze me that the US DOJ and media publish full names. In The Netherlands, only the first name and the first letter of the last name will be made public—and the full name could remain a secret for many years.
They do this in other countries too. Like Belgium, where after the Zaventum airport bombings the wrong guy was arrested as 'the terrorist with the hat that got away'. His full name published all over the place. His life destroyed now, lost girlfriend, friends, job, etc. Plus Belgium police keeps arresting him to nail him for something, anything really, to make good for their initial blunder.
So the idea is that almost all government stuff is public information. It's why FOIAs are so powerful. Literally anyone can ask the government to open up it's docs on virtually anything as long as national security isn't involved (and this is abused, but to a degree only) it has to comply.
Now, such a tool will inevitably have good and bad. Just as having private court cases will also.
Personally I think we need to create a privacy reform similar to the Civil Rights act of 1964 to address this and many other concerns. I'm simply explaining the thought process where our current tradition came from.
Florida actually has much broader public information laws than the rest of the country. That's why you see so many 'Florida man' stories. My understanding is FL takes it a step further than just being public, they publish much of it by default, making it easy for reporters to sift through and find headlines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information_legis...