THE INTERNET VERSION OF A MAFIA SHAKEDOWN?
Think you'll ever get a good paying job once that headhunter or potential employer finds your mugshot and info about your arrest on the Internet? (MONROE, WA) -- You have a picture taken of you. A picture you do not want taken…at a police station somewhere. It is your mug shot. Your arrest shot. But later, you may be exonerated of whatever crime you were charged with. Maybe the charges were dropped before there ever was a trial. Now you find your mug shot on a website . You tell the website – which is a mugshot website that does nothing but post mug shots – that you want it taken down because you have been exonerated or were never charged to begin with. The website says sure. For $400. You give us $400 dude (or more) and we take down your photo . Sound like a low level Mafia shakedown to you? Some people think it is. “That’s the dilemma facing people across the country as a backlash rises against mug-shot websites that demand that people pay up to have th...