The publication of unconfirmed news is causing great harm to the victims and the investigation process itself, it was said in this workshop held in three separate sessions.
The head of the information office at the Supreme Court, Antigona Uka-Lutfiu, considered that the publication of news without the confirmation of the spokespersons of the courts is the fundamental mistake.
In the two-day workshop, the need for a greater number of staff in the field of communication was also emphasized.
"We continue to be one person in the offices for information, which presents a special challenge in the opportunity to transmit as much information as possible, to inform the public as much as possible about developments in the judiciary, about judgments, so this is the main current challenge "Otherwise, transparency is increasing from year to year. A very large number of judgments are published every day. If I am not mistaken, we now have over 150,000 judgments published on the website.""We are lawyers of our institution, we advocate for the jobs, activities and tasks that we have competence in, in the tasks described to us and at the same time we constantly try to increase the level of cooperation with the media, civil society and others, parties who are interested in cooperating with us. We carry out a double mission as a community, because we also advocate for the media within the institution, so it is a double mission, which we discussed today in the sessions of the workshop day. With the new Salary Law but also with the internal regulations of the prosecutorial system, we think that the reward for their work should be achieved because I think that in order to create a public communication officer with his experience and with all his reach in the public, a period of time must pass, and public communication officers are not easily created, they must be preserved in the system", he emphasized.
The project manager, Fadil Miftari, said that this workshop was aimed at improving and increasing the transparency of the justice system in relation to the media and the public.
“Both of these mechanisms have not started any initiative to use digital forms of promotion or increasing transparency towards the public. They each communicate, each has their own websites, but it is still in the stage of traditional communication. However, as we know, today we have a wide range of new forms of communication that are faster and create much closer contact directly with the public, without someone in between… Here it was observed that they have not yet taken any substantial steps to communicate directly with the public”, said Miftari.