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ME - Editorial - Maine can do better tracking sex offenders

View the article here 04/26/2009 The purpose of any program should be to promote safety and rehabilitation. Not many lawmakers want to be caught casting a vote that could be interpreted as going easy on sex offenders. That means laws that make the lives of these felons difficult are easy to pass and those that try to fix excesses are legislative nonstarters. But a measure of common sense has infected an attempt in the Maine Legislature to create a more effective system for tracking and treating people convicted of sex offenses, including those who have committed crimes against children. Any discussion of the issue should start with the notion that the purpose of sex-offender registries and restrictions should not be to punish the offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).