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Why Megan's Law Is Getting An F

By "eAdvocate"

12-7-2009 National:It seems like, every day, there's a story about a child abused by a convicted sex offender, even though there's a federal law that is supposed to keep track of them. So is there something wrong with Megan's Law? The Early Show takes a closer look this week in a special series called "Broken Promise." Correspondent Tracy Smith offers the details. Megan's Law was written with the best of intentions, but a growing body of evidence suggests it may not be living up to its promise. Megan's law promise as it were was to do one thing, provide the public with the names of former sex offenders living in communities, it didn't even promise to provide addresses this came later. Then, as now, ALL the Megans' laws are, is, a telephone book of names and addresses which show where former offenders (registrants) SLEEP for a few hours of the day...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 07, 2009 (boomark / email).