Mugshots: Press, Punishment & Privacy Concerns

Scott Ciolek appeared on “The Kojo Nnamdi Show” on AMU 88.5 at American University in Washington.

Here’s a snippet: “The mugshots right now are being abused and exploited all over the internet. And what we’re finding throughout the country right now is that once a mugshot hits a public information request situation, like it is on most of the state levels, is that these pictures are being absorbed into these online databases where the proprietors of the databases are charging people money to have it removed from their database. So it’s a very large racket that’s going on all across the country right now.”

You can view the entire transcript here.