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Monday, September 10, 2007

Bernie takes the mug shots down

Want to see the arrest photos of the convicts who are being released early in Multnomah County? For a while now, the sheriff's office has been posting them on the internet for all to see. The inclusion of names and addresses has been helpful in seeing who might be coming back to a neighborhood near you.

But now that information has vanished from the internet. According to the front page of the sheriff's website --

The Early Release website is temporarily unavailable. Please check back when our Public Access Inmate Database (PAID) comes online
The fact that they're calling the new system "PAID" -- is that supposed to indicate that folks are going to have to pay to use it?

And while the new system is being developed, why were the old mugs taken down? It seemed that there was a public interest served by posting them. If the sheriff's changed his mind about that, some public discussion of the issue might have been in order.

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The early release website hasn't been updated in months. The last time I checked it said there hadn't been anyone released in 60 days, which was inaccurate because the Sheriff had matrixed about 60 folks in July.

Posted by stan | September 10, 2007 7:43 AM




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