Arizona town apologizes to 12-year-old reporter for threatening to arrest her

By Tom Jackman Tom Jackman Reporter covering criminal justice locally and nationally Email Bio Follow February 28 at 12:27 PM Even in a new town, with new friends and new stories, 12-year-old crime reporter Hilde Kate Lysiak knew her rights. And when she was pursuing a story in the small town of Patagonia, Ariz., last week, she stood firm and shot video of the town police chief telling her, “If you put my face on the Internet, it’s against the law.”The national news media picked up on the story.

Hilde and her family are thrilled. She wrote a statement early Thursday, then flew off to Florida to make a speech at a book signing. She, with help from her father, author Matthew Lysiak, has written five books for Scholastic about being a young crime reporter and solving cases in her hometown of Selinsgrove, Pa., where the Orange Street News was created.

The encounter with Marshal Patterson was not Hilde’s first since she began working the beat in Patagonia, and she’d had plenty of experience with cops in Selinsgrove. When the police there came down on her hard two years ago, “I told her to take it as a real compliment,” Lysiak said. “They’re treating you like a real reporter.”

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Alot has changed in Arizona. I remember when Patagonia was an artsy community. This asshole cop must be from Wickenburg.

When Kids know the law better than the Police sounds like the Cops need to go to school! But then the kids don't blindly shoot down people when they aren't armed! The Cop should be FIRED and never allowed to work in law enforcement! We need Smart Cops not stupid trumpian Loosers!

It’s still a felony regardless if they removed the language from their website. Someone needs to get a legislator to back repealing or rewriting that law or it is going to be used against a whole lot of people that ain’t white.

I know corporations are people now, but when did towns become sentient?

that's fine, but it's the pig who needs to apologize and be reprimanded

Good for her! She has a bright future.

he’s just echoing daddy trump’s anti-press sentiment

And yet absolutely no consequences for Marshall Joseph Patterson?

Good for her and her family, never quit.

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