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Articles tagged mugshot sites (6)

Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2021

Is unpublishing old crime stories Orwellian or empathetic? The Boston Globe is offering past story subjects a “fresh start”

Should the worst moment of your life also be your top Google search result? Your “permanent record” is sometimes more about old news stories than court records, and newspapers are increasingly rethinking their responsibilities.

Revenge porn could be opening up an exception to publishers’ protections online

Mark CoddingtonOctober 11, 2013

This Week in Review: Twitter’s TV ramp-up, and a clash over press regulation in the UK

Plus: The fallout of government surveillance, mugshot extortion, a Philly newspaper flap, and the rest of the week’s media and tech news.

Some digging by The New York Times strikes a blow against those skeezy mugshot sites

Jillian StonecipherFebruary 25, 2013

A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights

“Even staunch free speech advocates recognize that these mugshot companies are, at the very least, distasteful. But, of course, the First Amendment does not allow the government to regulate content simply because it is distasteful.”

Jeffrey HermesJanuary 24, 2013

A court case against those skeezy mugshot websites raises First Amendment issues

In going after mugshot sites, a plaintiff in Toledo is seeking to make the right of publicity extend to non-endorsement uses of people’s images.