Heck, even a speeding ticket isn't shared by the DMV until after you plea guilty or are convincted. You have a long period of appeals until that time.
I guess my point is you don't get things like Mugshots.com because you run a fair and equitable justice system. You get Mugshots.com because some people want to get in on our prison system racket but they don't have enough money to bribe a politician.
That sounds closer and closer to secret arrest. The public has a right to know who the government has arrested and why.
By sealing them until after conviction, it makes it sound like the mugshot is punishment. It isn't. It's a public record to check the government against secretly arresting people (or intentionally arresting the wrong people).
Speaking as someone who grew up in a sane country. (Norway).
We need instead to presume that everybody who is arrested (and whose mugshot is posted) is innocent unless compelling evidence, based on sworn testimony, is presented.
I don't see how adding secrecy is a solution to extrajudicial punishment.
Very unlikely. As soon as a mug shot is entered into the system, it's a public document and available to any citizen. You can walk into your local police station and request to see all of the mug shots taken that day. It's your right as an American citizen. It's how small newspapers put together their "police blotter" section.
Journalism schools used to send their students out to dig up all the information they could about a person, as part of a larger project for credit. Sometimes it was a professor of their choice, or the class professor, or some random mope out of the phone book.
The police station was usually the third stop, after the city clerk's office (business and zoning records) and the county clerk's office (property ownership records).