Looking at the notification of family as I see the sherrif's perspective....
Remains are found near the A. home. Media gets wind of it right away, speculation on the remains is rampant.
Policy is that the sherrif's office must notify family members of suspected remains being found. Usually they have some time to do this, but not with the media camping out near the remains.
Attempts are made to notify the A.'s, but it is determined they are on a plane. KC must be notified, but the jail is part of the sherrif's dept. so they can do the notification.
Jail staff has choices. They can wait for the attorney to show up. But they know that KC has a radio and that other inmates are watching the TV and coverage is beginning. If KC learns of the find through media, likely there will be problems because they allowed her to learn of the find from the media (which is against county policy.) They can go to her cell and notify her. But in doing that, they will be notifying her in a way that means other inmates will likely either observe or hear her response. There would be problems, because of not giving her privacy during the notification. And likely as soon as the other inmates got out of jail, they would probably be shopping the story to the media. In the above scenarios there is also the danger to their charge. Different people react in different ways. There is no way to know if KC will pick things up and throw them, attempt to harm herself or others, or collapse in the unsecured cell. Obviously that could cause them problems. Also she doesn't have a TV to watch the media coverage. They could take her to the med center itself, but the center doesn't have a TV to watch the media story. But the lobby does. So they could take her to the lobby of the med center and have a doctor present in case she collapses or becomes violent and needs restraints. They could tell her what was happening and allow her to watch the media coverage. It just so happens that the lobby does have a camera.
Releasing the info. My guess would be that the info got out. Maybe it was jail staff, maybe it was the doc. Or maybe it was just a reporter who asked "where was she told." Knowing it was in the lobby of the med center, they could have known there was a camera there.
When the info about the tape first came out, there wasn't a lot of info. Yes, there was talk that there was a tape, but not what was on it. Then the jail guard talked. She told what she observed, she told about asking for meds. So far the prosecution hadn't said a word. Later they did confirm that there was a tape, but other than that they didn't say much. It really wasn't until the depo that JB did, that details of what was on the tape were released.
So if JB wants to moan about details of what was on the tape getting out he really should blame himself. He is the one who harped and harped about it until he got the story going and the media really looking for more info about that story. Then he held the depo and made sure they got the details.
Prosecution has said they weren't going to use the tape in trial. Media has known about the tape, but I think that many have decided that the tape may be too controversial to use. They didn't even show up for the hearing about the tape. But JB keeps shouting "de tape, de tape." He says it so much he reminds me of that little guy on "Love Boat" who would say at the beginning of every show "de plane, de plane!"
The way I see it, JB was going to complain no matter what they did. The complaints of the tape is just one more complaint. If JB really thought there was prosecutorial misconduct, why is he complaining to the media and not the bar?
