PHOENIX (AZFamily) — The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has resumed posting online mugshots amid a court order that stopped the practice so what changed?

In 2022, Brian Houston was accused of kicking someone’s car in a Target parking lot. He was arrested, booked and had his mugshot taken.

“I didn’t do it. Once the footage was reviewed within, about within a week or so, then all the charges were released and dropped,” he said.

But his mugshot remained online because third-party websites posted it to thousands of followers.

“They’re publicly humiliating them, shaming them, and it recurs over and over and over again,” Houston said.

It was hard for him to get clients at his consulting job so he filed a lawsuit. Last year, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that posting mugsh

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