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spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Jail rosters are generally public information. I live in a fairly blue state with a lot of prisons (Colorado) and can look up any prisoner in the state system online.

Part of the thinking is that if it were secretive, the government could just disappear people (rightfully a concern with ICE right now) without anyone knowing.

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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I don’t see how it prevents anyone from getting disappeared. All they have to do is not add them to the database.

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- spongebue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Well, any law is only as good as people following it (and enforcement for violations)
  
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