That sucks... sorry to hear about that.
Most of those reports are always very public and usually published in local papers. The online avenue starts to make things so much worse in this regard as people have somewhat quietly ignored the fact that Newspapers have had to compete with new media (e.g. online news).... and it's now very common practice that all local media outlets have online distribution of information as well.
That makes a simple stop by police, that would have been bad enough to have published in your local paper.... spread a lot farther a lot faster.
There should really be something to prevent them from putting that info in the paper.
Presumably, if your supposed to be "innocent until proven guilty".