Jail Base Dot Com Announces Plans For New Facial Recognition App...

MN DOC mug shot, therefore public domain, blog post by John Hoff

Jail Base Dot Com is a competitor to this blog, but not really.

Frankly, I wish they'd compete even more effectively so I wouldn't have to publish the Hennepin County Jail Roster every month. If Jail Base Dot Com would simply start printing arrestee addresses as well as mug shots and charge info, I'd find it completely unnecessary to publish the county jail roster...a task I find uncreative and tedious at best, but very necessary.

Oh, well. Frankly the roster does wonders for my internet traffic, so it's not like I'm going to get worked up over the issue. I win either way. And I've been glad to see entities like Jail Base Dot Com carrying at least part of the load of promulgating information about arrests connected to North Minneapolis.

Now Jail Base is announcing exciting new plans to make a phone app available featuring facial recognition software...

Enjoy The Hennepin County Jail Roster-O-Rama Now, For Its Days Are Numbered Like A Beautiful Rose, March 14 to April 21, 2012...

Creative stock photo, a rose growing at FOB Gardez, Afghanistan, blog post by John Hoff

In the last year, an increasing number of internet entities are performing some of the same work accomplished by my periodic posting of the Hennepin County Jail Roster. For example, Jail Base Dot Com seems to be harvesting this data and putting it online. While performing a recent internet search on a guy named Steven Lamar Flowers, arrested for alleged DUI, I found his arrest on Jail Base Dot Com.

However, Jail Base Dot Com doesn't list the home address of the arrested parties. I'm not sure if this represents a deliberate policy by Jail Base, or if...