A popular online log of Beaufort County mugshots has gone two weeks without updates, interrupting a usually steady flow of publicly accessible arrest data — and for some residents, disrupting a daily ritual of keeping tabs on local crime.
Beaufort County spokesperson Hannah Nichols said the detention center’s inmate inquiry system was experiencing technical difficulties while the county upgraded its Spillman Flex system, a records management software designed to share information across police agencies, dispatch units and jail staff. The data from that program is fed into the mugshots website for near-hourly updates on inmates being booked and released from the jail.
The most recent updates to the jail roster were made the morning of June 17. Since then, no new arrests had appeared on the website…