The San Francisco Police Department said it would no longer release mug shots because they reinforce racial biases, joining a growing movement by newspapers and broadcasters to curtail their use.

The San Francisco Police Department will stop releasing most booking photos, or mug shots, to avoid perpetuating racial bias, San Francisco police Chief Bill Scott announced Wednesday.

While the San Francisco Police Department’s decision to take mug shots out of public circulation is a move in a right direction, activists like myself know it doesn’t go far enough.

California police department posts mug shots but without real faces. A photo illustration from the Murrieta Police Department enables it to abide by a new law, the agency says.

The department had been posting mug shots for about two years. "When it was first proposed to me, it was a great idea," Whipple said of the initial decision to post mug shots.

All mug shots that had appeared on the page prior previously were deleted last week, Whipple confirmed. The chief said his department had weighed public transparency versus posting the images.

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After the Murrieta Police Department used yellow Lego heads to hide the identities of suspects in a mug shot, the toy company has asked the department to cease the practice.

When the police arrested a suspect in a series of bank holdups in Portland, Ore., they took his mug shot and prepared to show it to witnesses in a photo array alongside images of five similar ...

Milwaukee Police Department is proposing trading 2.5 million jail records for facial recognition technology access with the company Biometrica.