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This, in my country mugshots are only revealed after conviction or in exceptional cases (like when they're after armed criminals still at large). I think that

• reaperducer 8y ago
  >I think that's the case too with some US states like Florida. Very unlikely. As soon as a mug shot is entered into the system, it's a public document and available to any citizen. You can walk into your local police station and request to see all of the mug shots taken that day. It's your right as an American citizen. It's how small newspapers put together their "police blotter" section. Journalism schools used to send their students out to dig up all the information they could about a person, as part of a larger project for credit. Sometimes it was a professor of their choice, or the class professor, or some random mope out of the phone book. The police station was usually the third stop, after the city clerk's office (business and zoning records) and the county clerk's office (property ownership records).