California is placing more rules on the use of mugshots posted to law enforcement agencies’ social media accounts.

Starting on Jan. 1, 2024, police departments and sheriff’s offices must include the name and pronouns provided by the arrestee in their posted mugshots.

  • lurch (he/him)
    51·
    11 months ago

    I don’t know the law and the article doesn’t specify it, but “Attack/Helicopter” probably aren’t valid pronouns. The dictionary lists them as noun or maybe a verb, unlike they, he, she etc… Anyone knows what the law actually allows?

    • starman2112
      12·
      11 months ago

      The law just says they have to “use the name and pronouns given by the individual.” That means they’ll release your picture with the name Long Dick Johnson and pe/nis pronouns, and then refer to you as “the individual in question, legally known as Adam Smith” for the rest of the post. It’s a nothingburger that I’m pretty sure is designed to get conservatives frothing at the mouth. It’ll be fun listening to my mom bitch about it for 20 minutes as if it means anything at all.

      • afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        Conservatives should get themselves arrested to own us. “Haha I am going to go to Federal prison for a decade and I said my pronouns were Attack Helicopter. That means I win.”

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      101·
      11 months ago

      Anyone knows what the law actually allows?

      Last I checked the cops and courts enforce the law, and traditionally, they’ve not been great at accepting things like pronouns.

      Like I pointed out this wouldn’t need to be a law unless there had been egregious instances of people’s pronouns being ignored and people being deadnamed. Who releases mug shots? Cops. So this is a law aimed at cops.

      And you’re really acting like “it won’t be allowed” when cops are conservative scumfucks and the ones who will be taking down the pronouns? Give me a break, they’ll let it fly and it will end up in court for two years before anything is done about it.

      • BakedGoods
        1·
        11 months ago

        If you have your mugshot taken you have bigger issues than someone calling you by the name that’s on you ID and everyone except your social circle identifies you by.