Rejected petition Stop media hounding families.

A law be put in place that when media cover a story they must not hound or harass any family member regardless of age of the person of interest in relation to the story being covered under any circumstances.

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It is extremely harrowing and upsetting for family member regardless of age to have to deal psychologically or physically with the harassment of media when a family member becomes the centre of media attention. A law restricting this must be put in place to protect the family members.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

Currently the UK media are not regulated, although journalists are still covered by existing harassment laws.

The Independent Press Standards Organisation has published an Editors' Code of Practice which states that journalists must not continue their activities once asked to stop. ISPO has also published advice for handling unwanted approaches by journalist, which you can read here: https://www.ipso.co.uk/harassment/

We have published a petition calling for the Government to replace the current press self regulatory system with a statutory regulator, which you might like to sign: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300246

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 26 May 2020
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