Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Criminal Law Blogs -> Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies

Criminal Law

: Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies

Cops Scrapping Registry Computer System

By "eAdvocate"

1-21-2011 Vermont: There are so many errors in the state?s online sex offender registry that the Department of Public Safety is replacing the computer system used to operate the registry. A new system is being purchased with funds obtained through a special federal grant. The errors were found last year in a legislatively-ordered audit of the accuracy of the information posted in the online registry. The question of accuracy was raised because two years ago the legislature decided that the home addresses of sex offenders should be listed online. The proposal was controversial, though, because in other states vigilantes have gone to the listed homes of sex offenders and shot the occupants. In some cases, offenders following all the terms of their probation or release were killed...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).