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Sex Offender Registration is Stupid

View the article here Written by Tiffany L Sanders It started in the early 1990s: a great new idea to track sex offenders who had been released from prison. The intent was good and the motivation sensible; the program would allow law enforcement to keep track of released sex offenders and, as it developed let people know when a convicted sex offender was living down the street. There was a flaw in the plan right from the start. As a parent, sure, I?d like to know if there?s a sex offender living next door. I?d also like to know if there was a child batterer, a drug dealer, or a murderer living next door?but for some reason the legislatures didn?t think those things were quite so pressing. Sex offenders got special treatment. The selectivity had some absurd results, too...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on January 29, 2009 (boomark / email).