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Slow fee collection from sex offenders

By "eAdvocate"

2-28-2011 Massachusetts: 10,995 people registered as sex offenders in 2010 BOSTON (AP) - An audit of the state Sexual Offenders Registry Board shows the agency lags in collecting the annual registration fee from offenders and notifying the Registry of Motor Vehicles to revoke the driver's licenses of offenders who fail to register. The review by the office of state Auditor Suzanne Bump cited inconsistent procedures for collecting the annual $75 fee offenders must pay when registering. And it found the agency fails to collect the fee from more than 40 percent of offenders and grants fee waivers for another 40 percent. It also found the board had been taking an average of 160 days to notify the Registry of Motor Vehicles for license revocations of offenders who failed to register...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on February 28, 2011 (boomark / email).