Let me clear the air a little bit him and my mom live in Baxter County AR, I am stationed in NY. He goes to his so called dealer to get a dimebag well he didn’t know the DEA was trying to take the dealer down. DEA says cooperate and we will drop everything. Long story short the dealer is still active and my bro has his face plastered on the NET. FOR A FREAKING DIMEBAG. So my other brother who is a lawyer I left a cpl messages with no answer yet. Oh it was a dimebag of pot…don’t know anything else that comes that way. I saw his pic and he was released and it just got me wondering what website can gain of a dimebag and getting charged with possession with inten to deliver?
Thank you for making the second point. It does suck that I am forever searchable on an arrest database but I’ll take that over the cops being able to disappear me as a matter of course, as opposed to having to do extra work to disappear me. This is why the suspension of due process for ANY crime is bad. I know I’m preaching to the choir here.
It should be able to be wiped clean, and not ever be published to the internet without safeguards to prevent AI-scraping/people search websites/etc. from picking it up. These websites (and other sources of the information) should block anybody without a legitimate and reasonable need to know that information about the person arrested (and access should be logged) - it’s also not newsworthy to systematically report on arrests that are e.g. victimless and not tied to a notable event (as newspapers tend to do).
If one wants their arrest record to be completely public, that should be a right upon arrest.
As it stands, permanent and public arrest records prevent one from restoring their reputation and absolutely impairs their ability to function in our discriminatory society - where arrest records and criminal history are heavily weighted against applicants.