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Offender Watch - Spreading misleading recidivism statistics

See this detailed article Also, the sites who use Offender Watch, use a generic template, and I've seen one or two that has a disclaimer about using the registry to harass or threaten people, but most do not have any warning what so ever.  So, if the states use this, they basically are not in compliance with the SORNA regulations. To see more of what I am talking about, see "A Voice Of Reason's Opinion" above, and also the video at the end. The "Offender Watch" program, who make the sex offender registry program used by many sheriff departments, has the quote "50% of sex offenders re-offend," on their website presentations. A person who emailed them and got a response back from them, has documented this as well, here. The study they quote, doesn't account for new sex crimes only, but all crimes, which is misleading...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on November 16, 2009 (boomark / email).