Making Profit with Online Mugshots

From ABC News:

Businesses that publish police mug shots are proliferating online, shaming those with DUI charges or other arrests into spend hundreds of dollars to have their information removed from the sites.

Laura, a teacher in Florida who asked that her last name not be used, was arrested for driving under the influence last year. To her surprise and chagrine (sic), the next day Google's search results for her name showed pages that displayed her mug shot.

After recovering from the shock and depression of her first brush with the law, she said she decided to act to have the information removed from these commercial sites.

"I was feeling proactive and figured I would do whatever it took," she told ABC News, paying $850 to have her mug shot removed from the private websites.

Critics have hinted that charging money to remove mugshots from the Internet is a form of extortion. Readers can decide.