Aiming to respect the reputations of the people arrested in the community it covers, the New Haven Independent has a mugshot-free arrest page

The New Haven Independent, a nonprofit news outlet, has an usual policy: It will not run photos or name people who have been arrested, unless they’re a public figure, the arrest is deemed an emergency or the Independent can interview the accused person directly. “I feel strongly that if the press quotes police officers and experts about what [should] be done with/for people who get arrested and are in hard times, we should try to have those people’s side of the story included as well,” says editor and founder Paul Bass. “People’s reputations are at stake, and often the arrest itself and not the outcome is what is known about them.”