Maricopa County won’t face class action over mugshot site

PHOENIX — An appeals court in Arizona agreed with the lower court’s decision not to certify a class in a complaint brought by a man who was arrested and says the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office posted his mugshot, birthdate and other personal information on a website that did not explain that people appearing on the site had not been convicted of a crime and were presumed innocent. False light claims require defendants to publish “a major misrepresentation” about the plaintiff; determining whether the publication of arrestees’ mugshots misrepresented them would likely require individualized facts.