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Another day, another story from Mich.?s sex offender registry dragnet

By "eAdvocate"

Concerning the "force or coercion" there are a few possibilities why this could be wrong: 1) Most likely is, the information for the registry is inputted by local police and they could have skipped reading his file at all (time consuming); 2) It may have to do with the way he was charged, the specific MCL code used and his attorney didn't pick it up. Under the Adam Walsh Act inputting will be done by local police, so we can look forward to MANY errors (interpretation of files that are years old and often incomplete, so a guess will prevail).As to the "concerned neighbor" this is proof that registries are FREQUENTLY MISREAD because it is impossible to tell the real story online; the result is further damage of the registrant and family when one is connected to the registrant...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).