Media mentions and appearances
John is regularly consulted and quoted in various media based on his experiences with cybersecurity, cybercrime, criminal justice, law, and more. A sampling of some of the mentions is below (links take you to the external news site).
- Legal filing: NYPD illegally used sealed arrest records in Adams bail reform ‘publicity stunt’, Gothamist, 12/20/2022
- I explain the value of sealed records for investigative purposes. Of course, law enforcement needs to obtain information and evidence lawfully and properly, so this may require a court order to unseal records first.
- '900K will resolve it': Court docs reveal settlement talks in Handy beating case, Times Union, 12/02/2022
- Transit police officials blast DA Hayden for dismissing misconduct charge against their own officer, The Boston Globe, 10/31/2022 (paywall)
- Suffolk tipped off to possible cyberattack months before Sept. 8, Newsday, 10/15/2022
- Suffolk County ransomware attack: What you need to know, Newsday, 9/20/2022
- Cybercriminals claim responsibility for Suffolk cyber hack, county says, Newsday, 9/16/2022
- An off-duty Suffolk police officer escaped alcohol testing after a car crash that fractured 2-year-old Riordan Cavooris’ skull, Newsday, 8/19/2022
- A former Eastchester Police Department officer is alleging that the department focused excessively on vehicle and traffic tickets, Journal News/LoHud, 7/21/2022 (paywall)
- Hackers breached several of MTA's computer systems in April, WABC New York Eyewitness news, 6/2/2021
- NYC rolls back qualified immunity for police officers, Pix 11, 3/26/2021
- Suffolk police let Peter Fedden go after a drunken-driving crash. He got back behind the wheel and died, Newsday, 4/21/2022
- Metaverse experts reveal if you can MURDER someone in virtual world - and whether you can be punished, NY Post, 4/10/2022
- PREDATOR 'HAVEN' Warning Metaverse is a ‘playground for pedophiles as sex offenders can groom kids using child-friendly avatars’, US Sun, 4/7/2022
- Ransomware and cyber attacks could test New York SHIELD Act, Crain's New York, 6/10/2021 (paywall)
- Travis DA Jose Garza faces uphill battle in cases against officers, Austin American Statesman, 4/5/2021, (paywall)
- Data Privacy and Consumer Protection, WSHU The Full Story, 6/25/2019
- Quest Diagnostics Says Up to 12 Million Patients May Have Had Financial, Medical, Personal Information Breached, NBC New York, 6/3/2019
- Getting Rid of Tree Roots From Next Door, NY Times, 6/3/2017,
- Street gangs turn to white collar crime, Marketplace, 3/9/2016
Conclusion
I believe in the importance of our free press and good journalism. I try to help journalists understand the issues, law, facts and present my perspective so they can do their job well when presenting to their audience. Hopefully they have done good research into the facts and spoken to many sources of information and insight.
Sometimes I provide them with an opinion based upon information provided to me. Of course, my opinion is based on information provided to me, and could change if additional facts are learned or presented.
I do not control anything the journalist writes or does, nor their opinions, nor what their editor and publisher does. Thus, my listing of media mentions does not imply approval of the article, nor of how I was quoted. I might share hundreds or thousands of words with a reporter on a particular inquiry and it is their choice what they choose to quote and why. My hope is that I influenced their reporting in a positive way.
Where I have added a short blurb, that is my short summary of my takeaway, not necessarily the reporter's quoting of me nor the reporter's takeaway.
This page is hosted at https://johnbandler.com/media-mentions-and-appearances. Copyright John Bandler, all rights reserved. Of course, no claim to the work of others linked to.
Updated 1/4/2023.