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human
CMV: Arrest records should not be made public; only conviction records should be

I was reading my local newspaper last night and every week the police department puts out a record of arrests made in the county. We're not a large county, so it's not uncommon to know someone who is "featured" (or at least know someone in their family/same last name). Obviously, not *everyone* who is arrested is guilty. If they're found not guilty and the crime was minor (and most are), that won't make the paper -- but their arrest already has. And given that most newspapers are published online nowadays, their names will come up in search engines as having been arrested (but you'd have to search the state court record system to find out they weren't convicted, which is much harder to do). 

People should not be convicted in the court of public opinion before they are convicted in an actual court. It's not the public's business who gets arrested. It's the public's business who is found guilty of a crime.

Change my view.
gpt
What if the police are corrupt, and start arresting people they don’t like?

What if the government starts cracking down on political dissidents?

Allowing arrest records to be public ensures that people can’t be easily “disappeared” through seemingly-legitimate arrests.