Details of their arrest were not immediately available. Keesee was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail and Sarid was booked into the Broward County Jail on May 16, jail records show. Last year, Florida passed similar legislation prohibiting soliciting or accepting a fee to remove a booking photograph. This is exploitation, plain and simple."Ĭalifornia outlawed charging people money to remove their mugshot from the internet in 2014, according to the Sacramento Bee.
"Those who can't afford to pay into this scheme to have their information removed pay the price when they look for a job, housing, or try to build relationships with others. "This pay-for-removal scheme attempts to profit off of someone else's humiliation," said California Attorney General Becerra in the release. Two other owners, Kishore Vidya Bhavnanie and David Usdan, have also been charged. Criminal records will only be taken down if a person pays a fee, the AG’s Office said. The site reportedly reroutes booking photos to a secondary website called and charges people a "de-publishing" fee if they wish to have their photo taken down. mines data from law enforcement websites to publish people’s names, booking photos and charges, according to the AG’s office.
The arrests of Thomas Keesee, of West Palm Beach, and Sahar Sarid, of Lighthouse Point, on Wednesday come as part of an effort by the California Attorney General’s Office to pursue criminal charges against for individuals behind the “cyber exploitation website,” according to a press release. State and local authorities arrested two South Florida owners of, a website that posts arrest records and booking photographs, on charges of extortion, money laundering, and identity theft.
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