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Legislation approved by a Senate Committee today at the state Capitol makes it illegal for web sites to charge someone for removing a mug shot from their site. State Senator Darren Soto says the bill targets unsavory groups who use virtual intimidation to demand payment for removing the mug shots. Soto says the bill does not affect legitimate sites who publish the pictures.

“This bill wouldn’t effect that because newspapers never demand payment in order to remove those photos. They simply could keep them up forever if they felt like it. and this bill would do nothing about that. It;s simply the unsavory practice of charging for removal for which we have a cottage industry that has affected Florida” says SOTO.

Many who pay to have the mug shots taken down find out weeks later the picture is back up on an affiliated web site and they are asked to pay again to take the shot down.