Thank you for making the second point. It does suck that I am forever searchable on an arrest database but I’ll take that over the cops being able to disappear me as a matter of course, as opposed to having to do extra work to disappear me. This is why the suspension of due process for ANY crime is bad. I know I’m preaching to the choir here.
M1ch431@slrpnk.net 8 hours ago
It should be able to be wiped clean, and not ever be published to the internet without safeguards to prevent AI-scraping/people search websites for picking it up. These websites should block anybody without a legitimate or reasonable need to know that information - it’s also not news-worthy to systematically report on arrests that are e.g. victimless and not tied to a notable event.
If you want it completely publicly accessible, that should be a right upon arrest.