Two North Valley women say they have their family lives and careers on hold, to fight for a safer community.
Julie Read and Ann O’Brien, who live in the Norterra subdivision of the North Valley, started this mission after an old juvenile detention facility re-opened as the Maricopa Re-entry Center, a place where former inmates who were drug addicts and sex offenders would come for treatment.
“It was literally 16 sex offenders came in one day, in addition to the dozens we already have living in our community,” said Read. Full Article
I must apologize for my sarcasm. But, OMG somebody forgot to call Julie and Ann. I do understand the syndrome of not in my back yard. Instead of helping they will manage to add significantly to the rehab costs. I am sure the budget is minimal already. This kind of action(s) will affect the number of staff and the quality of the therapists. When there are failures the same will cry, “see rehab does not work”. The officials need to do their thing without interference. Unfortunately some people do not want to see success, they like having a group to hate. I have said before “if it was not the sex offenders it would be someone else”.
So grow up, get involved and help.
No women, the more you know, the more afraid it makes you and the more you think you don’t know, pretty soon you’ll have all 850,000 registrants on GPS and run constant alerts to your Google glasses, tracking dots on maps, and it won’t be enough even then. This whole thing started as a list you can view on a cd at the police station if you had any suspicions and cared enough to take the time and leave a name for the record. That wasn’t fast enough or convenient enough so you keep wanting more. The police must provide and everyone must pay taxes to make your witch watch more real time. Right now, you won’t have time to notice uncle Ernie in your daughter’s bedroom. That’s OK if he doesn’t wear the scarlet letter, he must be safe. You might as well leave raising your kids to a nanny while you track the boogie men.
These two women’s “passion” is misplaced along with their collective, unwarranted fear being misdirected.
A child’s worst enemy is his/her own mother. Irony!
While I’m certain these two women think they are “well meaning” and “doing this for their community”, they have forgotten several things.
Intentionally trying to keep people segregated from society, making them pariahs, is not “well meaning”. These former, and I stress, former offenders, are part of the community, so if you are hell bent on doing something to improve your community, then include them rather than purposefully trying to exclude them.
Just as these women wouldn’t want someone “watching” them 24/7, registrants who have paid their dues don’t want that either. Maybe it’s time to turn the tables, maybe it’s time to “watch the watchers” and report on them everytime they so much as look at a registrant.
These women want to be “notified” of a registrant’s very exsistence in their community.
Ladies, I might suggest that it’s the people in your community that “aren’t” on the registry, those that you have no public access to information about, those that are doing nasty things behind closed doors in their own homes, your family, friends, neighbors, that are more likely to be a threat to your community than registrants who have already paid for their crimes.
And, just an FYI, personally I feel that your comments “that’s why they’re called lobbyists, because they’re hanging around the lobby” and “we have to stop our housecleaning and change out of our sweats at a moments notice, it’s like a roller-coaster ride” sort of make you sound really dumb and really in this just for the attention.”
Kat with all respect I completely disagree with the following statement.
While I’m certain these two women think they are “well meaning” and “doing this for their community”, they have forgotten several things.
I think these people are seizing on opportunities to become more powerful big nanny community terrorist and to create a so called “non-profit ” which as we all know so that they can draw enormous salaries and travel dinners vehicles all associated with the “nonprofit ” for doing absolutely nothing just like all the other organizations and politicians oh and plus huge tax write offs and so on and so on…if anyone really wants to protect children they would do their due diligence and apply factual data to determine what types of actions they can take to prevent child abuse before it happens….
mike r
Point taken.
Wow, well said Kat, good to hear from another female with her point of view on this side, not the fear and ignorance side, sure everyone wants their kids to be in a safe place, but home isn’t always the answer!
And, not just the guys, some RC’s are the opposite gender, even though I am a bender, not straight. Thx Kat!
(MikeR) has a ;point, but that’s how those 2 were thinking in their minds, that’s all you were stating, understood Kat.
p.s. I lived in AZ for over 18 years and pink boxers Joe= NO