Shamed by Mugshot Sites, Arrestees Try Novel Lawsuit http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Websites that host booking photos and charge hundreds of dollars to remove the mugshots are proliferating across the country, raking in fortunes from those wanting to keep their arrest and criminal records off search engines. There's dozens of them with names like florida.arrests.org, okiemugs.com and justmugshots.com. There's no law against them, as they have been viewed as protected by the First Amendment because mug shots are public records. Defamation suits have gone nowhere. But now, an Ohio lawyer is taking a novel legal approach to get back at these sites by asserting that state's right-of-publicity law and suing a handful of the sites for exploiting images for commercial gain.



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