The police department in Boscawen, N.H. have started the practice of posting people’s mugshots on Facebook.<\/p>\n
One person claims to have lost a job when the police posted his name and mugshot on the social network.<\/p>\n
Jacob Hooper is a local teenager who was arrested for underage drinking. He found out that his mugshot was posted on Facebook from friends who saw it online.<\/p>\n
Now he is worried about how this digital public record could affect everything from college admissions to future employment.<\/p>\n
The mugshots are posted on Facebook along with some arrest record details as well as the person’s court date.<\/p>\n
The police department’s Facebook page was launched several months ago. The Boscawen Police department also posts events, unsolved crimes and arrests on the site.<\/p>\n
The practice has outraged some local people, but the police department says that the arrest records and mugshots are all public records and therefore fair to use on a public site like Facebook.<\/p>\n
The Boscawen chief of police notes that the mugshots and arrest record information are removed from Facebook after each case is resolved.<\/p>\n
However, with server storage and the ability to copy and save digital information online, we all know that once digital, always digital.<\/p>\n
You can view the Boscawen Police Department’s Facebook page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The police department in Boscawen, N.H. have started the practice of posting people’s mugshots on Facebook. One person claims to have lost a job when the police posted his name and mugshot on the social network. Jacob Hooper is a local teenager who was arrested for underage drinking. He found out that his mugshot was […]<\/p>\n