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Jail And Arrest Records

An optional module. It is switched off until someone here decides otherwise.

The Module Is Disabled

The public blotter and inmate roster return a not-found page, nothing appears in the site navigation, and no arrest data is reachable by anyone outside this panel. Nothing on this page takes effect until you enable it.

Before You Turn This On

Publishing arrest records is a decision with consequences for people who have not been convicted of anything.

What You Are Taking On

Everyone listed on a blotter is presumed innocent. Most will never be convicted of what they were booked for.
A booking entry published without its outcome follows a person through search results for years, long after a case is dropped.
Publishing booking photographs is restricted or prohibited in several states. Confirm your own law before enabling it.
Courts issue sealing and expungement orders, and you have a legal duty to comply promptly when one arrives.
Juvenile records are never publishable on this platform. That is not adjustable here or anywhere else.

Enable Jail And Arrest Records Turns on the public blotter, the inmate roster, and the staff screens, and adds a menu item under an existing navigation dropdown.

Publishing Agency

Shown above the public listings. For example: Cottonwood Springs Police Department.

Booking Photographs

Off by default. Several states restrict or ban publication of mugshots.

Show Booking Photographs On The Public Site Photographs can always be stored and viewed by staff. This controls only whether the public sees them.

Individual records can also be flagged for takedown, which hides that photograph whatever this setting says.

Retention

How long a published record stays on the public blotter, counted from the booking date.

Retention Window In Days *

60 days is the conservative default. Records are kept for staff after they leave the public site.

Expiry is enforced on every public read and again nightly, when records past their window are unpublished and the change is written to the audit log.

What The Public Sees

Fields that are reasonable to withhold without making the blotter useless.

Publish The Inmate Roster A current custody list, derived from records still marked In Custody. Show Bond Amounts Show Case Numbers Allow The Public To Search By Name Turning this off leaves date browsing in place but stops the blotter working as a name lookup service.

Juvenile Records

A subject under 18 can never be published, and there is deliberately no switch here to change that. Such records can still be created and kept for staff use; publication is refused at save time, on the publish action, and again on every public read.

Standing Disclaimer

Shown at the top of every public arrest-records page. It cannot be removed, only reworded.

Disclaimer Text *

Suggested Wording

An arrest is not a conviction. Every person named here is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty in a court of law. These records reflect the information available at the time of booking and may not reflect the charges ultimately filed, the current status of a case, or its outcome.

Introduction And Contact

Blotter Introduction

Optional. Appears beneath the disclaimer on the blotter, for local context such as which agencies report here.

Corrections And Removal Contact

How someone reaches you to correct a record, request a photograph takedown, or serve a court order. Publish a real route.