That was six years before media coverage of the conditions in juvenile detention centers launched a public scandal.
The U.K. government ordered the inquiry in July amid a public outcry over a scandal at News of the World involving interception of mobile-phone voice mails of crime victims, politicians and celebrities in pursuit of scoops.
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For a citizen to do so, he said, would be a "disgrace" but for a public representative it was a "scandal".
Prime Minister David Cameron announced a public inquiry into the scandal last week.
This week, a Socialist member of parliament, Jean-Marie Le Guen, was formally put under investigation for the alleged misuse of public money in a scandal involving a students' insurance fund.
Early in our history an incident involving one of the authors of the Constitution, Alexander Hamilton, shows clearly the bright line between, on the one hand, a private sexual scandal, and on the other, a public obligation--a line the president has intentionally crossed.
He was speaking after presenting a draft law aimed at "moralising" French public life - a response to the tax scandal that has shaken his presidency.
For professionals (like me) who deal in reputation preservation and enhancement, the challenge is to reaffirm the critical value of that work even as the intensity of public reactions subsides during a period of scandal-exhaustion.
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Only one notable unpleasantness marked Samoa's politics in Malietoa's time, the murder of a minister of public works in 1999, allegedly to prevent him from revealing the details of a corruption scandal.
Without a major public outcry, or some kind of "scandal" to focus the minds of politicians and telecoms executives, the erosion of privacy is likely continue unabated, argues Sam Biddle.
Now Alan Lange of Mississippi site YallPolitics (and co-author of Kings of Tort, a book on the scandal) has posted a massive document dump of emails between the Scruggs camp and its public relations agency, as made public in later litigation ( see also).
Atlanta Public Schools, jolted by a state-test cheating scandal this year, made the most improvement.
Ms Jones represented 119 families over the Mid-Staffordshire scandal - where standards were described by a public inquiry as "truly shocking".
This was the only major scandal in Japan that became public as a result of investigative reporting rather than leaks prompted by factional battles between government cliques.
Prince Harry drank a few pints and smoked a joint, big deal, but because people found out about it and it's not the "public image" that is expected there is a big scandal about it.
Mr Hotta, a public prosecutor who led the investigation into the Lockheed bribery scandal in the 1970s before founding his welfare body, believes that one of the biggest problems is the paucity of organisations in Japan to channel the good intentions of would-be volunteers.
The constant newsreel of arrests is nothing short of a public relations nightmare for the NFL. The league is already contending with a handful of lawsuits from the Saints bounty scandal and more than 2, 000 concussion-related suits from former players.
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She was taking part in a Welsh assembly debate about the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal.
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The California Public Employees' Retirement System was recently ensnared in a scandal involving former directors who received millions of dollars from money managers to line up contracts with the fund.
Public concerns also remains over milk products, after a high-profile scandal involving the use of melamine in baby milk formula.
Weiner's mayoral bid, officially announced late Tuesday, offers a chance for him to update the public's perception of him from scandal-lashed politician to candidate who's talking ideas.
Sir David's appearance before MPs comes a month after the publication of the final report of the public inquiry into the scandal, which saw hundreds of patients die after neglect and abuse from staff.
Last week the public inquiry into the scandal concluded patients had been "betrayed" by a system that put corporate self interest ahead of patient safety.
Whereas he had simply read a pre-prepared statement in February when making his first public appearance following the sex scandal, Woods, who has also been interviewed by ESPN and The Golf Channel since his misdemeanours came to light, now faced some truly probing questions.
Ohio Republican Bob Ney pleaded guilty in the Abramoff scandal, and a Justice Department ethics probe of Pennsylvania Republican Curt Weldon became public.
More than a year after it finishing sitting, the final report of the public inquiry into the Stafford Hospital scandal has been published.
President Bush wanted to have the complex destroyed after the abuse scandal became public, but an American military judge ordered it be preserved as a crime scene.
If Solyndra is more symbol than scandal, its lasting significance is that it is helping to swell public sentiment in a way that can have direct bearing on how businesses like Ford communicate.
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In a separate scandal in the late 1980s, the security services were forced to open up to the public, and then destroy, secret files they had kept on more than 900, 000 Swiss citizens.
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