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#1 Postby TexasStooge » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:03 am

Washington state jail posts Web site listing everyone in custody

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Want to know who's in the Snohomish County Jail? Just go online.

Authorities in the county north of Seattle have begun posting a list of everyone booked into custody over the past 24 hours, along with charges and bail amounts, with updates hourly between 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., jail director Steve Thompson said.

"It is a real-time look at who's in custody, who's been booked and who's been released," he said.

The site is available to anyone, from nosey neighbors to relatives wondering why a relative is late for dinner, but was designed mostly for law enforcement agencies to cut costs, Thompson said.

For example, police can now readily determine who has been jailed for crimes committed in municipal jurisdictions other than the ones where they were arrested.

"It will save scads of time," Lynnwood Cmdr. Don Cirino said. "Instead of sending e-mails out to the prosecutor, the public defender, investigations -- these huge lists -- we just give them the Web address."
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#2 Postby Josephine96 » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:24 am

I dont know.. Sounds to me like a pretty good idea.. but that's just me.
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#3 Postby stormchazer » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:36 am

You can get that information from the Florida State website as long as you have a name. You can search prison records of anyone incarcerated in FL.
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#4 Postby Lindaloo » Thu Nov 06, 2003 9:45 am

You can do that here in MS too. I think it is great! You can also see sex offenders too and if they are living in your neighborhood.

They even have a website to see Death Row inmates.
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#5 Postby Josephine96 » Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:38 am

Yes that they do. I think it's a pretty good idea. :) Lets me see which areas of town I gotta be more vigilant around cause of all the pervs'
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#6 Postby opera ghost » Thu Nov 06, 2003 10:47 am

Good idea I think. I think the worst protestors of it would say that disclosure of a booking could hurt them in bussiness or socially- but the honest truth is that most people won't really care enough to bother looking- especially if it deals strictly with who's there that day. It's not an accused's crime record online :)
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