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In a 53-14 vote that took place days ago, South Dakota's legislative House passed legislation that makes arrest booking photos public records. The measure, which cleared the state's Senate in January, will be signed by Governor Dennis Daugaard.
With that signature on Senate Bill 25, (PDF) South Dakota becomes the 49th state requiring mug shots to be public records. The only other state in the union where they're not public records is Louisiana.
The South Dakota measure is certain to provide fresh material for the online mug shot business racket. These questionable sites post mug shots, often in a bid to embarrass people in hopes of getting them to pay hundreds of dollars to have their photos removed. The exposé I did on this for Wired found that some mug shot site operators had a symbiotic relationship with reputation management firms that charge for mug shot removals.
[...] The law allows for the release of mug shots, even including those of minors, for those arrested for various felonies. The law also allows agencies to refuse to hand over booking photos that are more than six months old. Agencies are entitled to recover costs "to provide or reproduce" mug shots.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by VLM on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:14PM (8 children)
The South Dakota measure is certain to provide fresh material for the online mug shot business racket. These questionable sites post mug shots, often in a bid to embarrass people in hopes of getting them to pay hundreds of dollars to have their photos removed.
A large part of the real opposition is concern trolling where certain people find it highly inconvenient that certain demographic groups are committing crimes at levels inappropriate for their fractional representation of the population, and if only it were legally impossible for people to know the facts, then we could push even faster on various cultural issues.
A classic example is illegals find drunk driving to be hopelessly irresistible, I do not understand this at all, not being a Mexican citizen I guess its expected. Its just weird because every fatal hit and run in the news is inevitably another non-deportable illegal with the right to kill any citizen they want because illegal rights are superior to mere citizens rights. We're just supposed to pay taxes and shut up until we die and are demographically replaced.
Usually the "mug shot" is irrelevant and what they're really after is closing the records completely. Say we imported 1000 Somalians, how many white women got raped as an inevitable result, so if, I mean, when, we import 1000 more we can expect X more rapes, well, sorry that's legally a secret now because of the "keep mugshots secret" movement.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Scruffy Beard 2 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @04:41PM
The problem is that mug shots reflect arrests, rather than actual convictions.
Sometimes, when it is cold out, the poor ask to be arrested.
(Score: 3, Informative) by Kromagv0 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @05:07PM
Its just weird because every fatal hit and run in the news is inevitably another non-deportable illegal with the right to kill any citizen they want because illegal rights are superior to mere citizens rights.
Not all of them. Sometimes it is a privileged wealthy white woman [twincities.com] who is married to a local former sports star. There the travesty was the leniency of the punishment because had she been just about anyone else she would be rotting in jail for many years.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @06:42PM
Because wow it is hard to read what you wrote as anything other than racist trolling or satire.
(Score: 1) by kurenai.tsubasa on Wednesday March 15 2017, @07:49PM (4 children)
Hmm, trying to think of something witty to post. “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” That sort of fits, but I think we need a bit of an adjustment.
Let's try “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Nationalism, deserve neither Liberty nor Nationalism.”
Thanks, Ben!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @08:46PM (1 child)
I never understood why anyone would take lessons on safety from a guy who thought that flying a kite in a thunderstorm was a sane thing to do.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday March 15 2017, @10:29PM
Because he has been enlightening, OBVIOUSLY.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @12:57AM (1 child)
Problem: it's not "essential" to import millions of freeloaders from other countries and pay for their homes, food, schools, child support and medical expenses.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 16 2017, @04:04AM
Ah, alternative facts. Lemme make that less "alternative" and more "facts" for you.
Problem: it's
not"essential" to import millions offreeloadersworkers from other countriesandto pay fortheirour homes, food, schools, child support and medical expenses.