Family bombarded with emailed photos of dead daughter

Yes... they family 100% has a right to sue.  If the police did not get any permission from the family for the release of these pictures, then this is a breach of privacy.  Also, because if the complete wrongness if it all, I think that there are other things that they could be sued for.  I would definitely talk to a lawyer and see what they say.  I've never heard of such a thing.  I hope they sue. 

I think they could level a civil suit against the department,but it would probably be settled out of court.The best thing to do would be to order all the pictures removed from the internet (I've seen them.If I was her parent and that was my child it would feel like losing her all over again to know people were looking at her dead body and posting dumbass comments) because the family doesn't have many more legal options.Once a person is deceased,using their likeness is not a crime unless you assume their identity.Furthermore,because her face was unidentifiable,bloggers could say that it's not her on their pages and a defense attorney would argue that very same point for the police department.