Cruise Lines to Begin Disclosing All Onboard Crimes on Own Websites
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The devil will indeed be in the details about the cruise lines' decision to begin publishing allegations about onboard crimes on their websites. This would be a big improvement in transparency for passengers, although the decision occurred with the prospect that Congress might have forced the cruise lines to do it anyway.
Royal Caribbean International, Carnival, and Norwegian cruise lines will begin posting on their websites a compilation of allegations of crimes "onboard our ships around the world, on all itineraries," Royal Caribbean International CEO Adam Goldstein said today.
Testifying before the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Goldstein said the postings will begin August 1 and will be retroactive to the last quarter of 2010 when Congress passed the Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act (CVSSA).
The CVSSA, since it mandates the disclosure of crime allegations on cruise ships on a U.S. Coast Guard website, but only when the FBI has closed an investigat
