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iamthebandfanman

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72. thats a lil different...

Tue Dec 10, 2013, 11:38 PM

Dec 2013

as those mugshot websites youre speaking of get them off of public servers that are usually hosted/maintained by the jail or local government...

in fact, some governments contract websites to keep track of their databases for them...
take a site that services a lot of jails in my state ...

www.jailtracker.com

they recently got bought out by a larger company they were so successful ..

now, if you were never convicted of a crime.. it should be relatively easy to get your name and mugshot taken off... if you were convicted, its a lil harder.. and in the case of the website above, youd have to get your record expunged... which means you paying money and hiring a lawyer.

while I can see some merit to these types of websites (mugshot ones) , without a doubt they are used to blackmail and blacklist folks.. which is completely unfair ... public shaming wasn't a part of their sentence, id dare to guess

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You mis-characterize. Coyotl Dec 2013 #64

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