Why does Fulton county even allow smiling for the mug shots?

[harumph]

You aren't allowed to smile for passports. If you smile during a passport photo, they'll tell you to stop it.
Getting booked is a serious business.

[TheRealNorth]

1. My advice is not to get bent out of shape about it....

These treasonous SOB's had 2 weeks to figures out how they were going to orchestrate this.

[Mossfern]

2. Not so any more for passports

When I had my passport renewed last year, the person taking my photo told me to smile and urged me to smile even more. I was surprised. What I do wonder about the mug shots is the lighting. Usually it's front lit, but these are done with side lighting that shows shadows. More for portraiture than mug shots.

These are the most non mugshot like mugshots I've ever seen- almost like they were created by AI.

[obamanut2012]

11. You were lucky -- you cannot smile for passport pix

Or wear glasses.

Right from the Department of State website: "With a neutral facial expression and both eyes open."

[ITAL]

12. I'm smiling in my passport photo

Same with my wife.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

3. lmao

[Duncan Grant]

5. Tom Delay was the first to do it. It was appalling.

The public relations strategy is to manipulate everything to your own advantage. Even something as shameful as arrest (or in any other crisis).

Right-wing mindf*ck, it’s a political/public relations reality. A serious one. People get paid big bucks for this malevolence.

Edit: Once upon a time, it was a cultural norm not to photograph/record smiling mugshots. It was unthinkable. Funny how effective Tom was…

[Ocelot II]

6. Why shouldn't they, and who cares?

The reason for mug shots is to identify the person. They are identifiable either if they smile or if they don't.

[getagrip_already]

14. Facial recognition works better when you don't smile.....

Just one of the quirks of the system.

[CrispyQ]

7. Colorado doesn't let you smile for DL photos, anymore.

I always smiled in the past. Now I look grim.

[Wonder Why]

8. Let them smile. I'm glad they enjoy being labeled as criminals.

[Johnny999r]

9. Trump can smile all he wants

Smiling or making "intimidating" faces like Trump did during his booking photo were not tolerated when I was a police officer. Trump has no respect for anyone but himself and a dollar bill. Making faces distorts the suspect's facial identity, therefore they could not be as useful for witness identity down the road. Criminals are aware of this, that is why they try not to pose naturally sometimes. In that vein, Trump tried to scam the system again. However, in his case it hardly matters because who else has an ass bigger than NY, weighs over 275 lbs, three chins, multiple comb overs, orange hair with a pound of bobby pins, orange face mixed with ruddy complexion, etc, etc.

[treestar]

10. I wonder why didn't they do the profile shots

and have the height markings on the wall?

They did look like portraits.

[doc03]

13. Why doesn't any of the mug shots have the usual higth scale they always have? Never saw a

mugshot without that or without their number at the bottom.

[getagrip_already]

15. I wonder if a booking photo is different than an intake photo?

When they process you into prison, they will, in many prisons, take photos of tatoos and any identifying marks like birth marks. It's more detailed than these booking photos.

Or maybe it's just jurisdictional?

Never been arrested or in prison, so don't know.