ST. TAMMANY – Should there be a public list for sex crimes arrests similar to the state’s convicted sex offender registry?
The mother of an alleged child rape victim is making that suggestion after learning her child’s accused attacker had been free on bond for almost eight years, awaiting trial for child pornography charges.
“I’d love to open up a dialogue because there’s no reason that what happened to my daughter should happen to anybody else’s daughter,” she said, “That way we can look at these people and say, hey, this person’s been arrested for a sex crime. They might not be convicted, but I need to keep an eye on this person.” Full Article
Thank goodness Amazon is developing drone delivery of goods. That way, all of these incredibly fearful people can avoid ever stepping out into society where it’s not always rainbows and unicorns. I think we need a fear-mongering registry so we know who the Chicken Littles are we need to avoid. Maybe one day they will realize it is impossible to “outlaw” crime. It will always be with us. Always.
“Should there be a public list for sex crime arrests similar to the state’s convicted sex offender registry?”
OMG! Should there be a registry for stupid people? Or maybe people who stare at other people too long in public places? How about a registry for shopaholics or gamblers or people who talk too much (like some neighbors) you want to ignore?
I guess eventually all American citizens will be on one registry or another! Very sad that this country is going more and more towards hatred and vengeance instead of love and kindness
I think the more ridiculous registries there are the better. Animal abuse. Drunk Drivers. Arson. Pre-Conviction. Whatever. It just opens up more opportunities for these cases to heard and precedent to be set against them. If a lifetime animal abuse registry case goes before the supreme court, the odds are better that precedent will be set in our favor.
It’s going to come down to criminal records are to be considered like medical records, confidential available only on a need to know basis and with your permission …I could and probably will make a case for that as well as my gun rights back after I win on this current motion……..Wouldn’t it be ironic a layman with no legal experience wins these types of cases…. Hey you never know unless you try right……….
I can’t find anywhere in the US constitution or bill of rights or any state const. where the public has a right or a protected liberty interest to know my personal information no matter how many times they say “we have a right to know”…No actually you don’t but I do have rights to privacy and rights to reputation and rights to be free from unreasonable and oppressive official actions and so forth….Just like gov. tax records, gov. med records, DMV records, social security records, and I am sure there are more, those are all public records kept by the state or fed gov. and are not public records that can be disclosed to the general public. I haven’t checked out when or how criminal records came to be disclosable public records but I am sure a case can be made that they are not disclosable to the general public and the public has NO protected right to KNOW…
By the way all those records often have associated court records and guess what..Athough public record those court records are Not disclosable to the gen. public…
“I don’t think it’s a major violation of ethics or civil rights or anything like that because it’s just like your arrest record,” she said, “If you get arrested for something like that, it’s going to be on your arrest report. Your employers will be able to see it, it’s public record so it would essentially be the same.”
So if this is already happening, what else are you asking for? It’s not like this is the one criminal activity that hides the arrest record and you want it to be made public like everything else.
Another case of lets just make everything that happens put people on magical lists that protect the public from them.
So, he abused the girl over 2 years and the mother had no clue? Did she try to look him up on the registry, and does she look everyone that comes into contact with her kids? Probably not, so him being on the list or not is irrelevant.
How about putting it back on the court to not allow 7 years to pass without bringing the porn case to trial, or perhaps he should have been on some pre-trial supervision all that time? There are lots of ways this problem could have been avoided, and none of them have to do with a public shaming list that wouldn’t have been checked anyway.
This goes to show that parents need to be vigilant regardless of any lists, because had the guy not gotten caught with porn, you wouldn’t even be asking for a new list of those caught and the child still would have been raped by this guy.
I remember a court once ruled if the public and reporters are allowed in the court room, a person can have no expectancy of privacy.
Not sure how this new registry would have protected her child. There is not enough information here. Even if they listed addresses, that doesn’t prevent a potential offender from traveling and offending beyond his neighborhood. The registries we have are no good in protecting children, why would this one be any different? Most cases by far are within the family. While the parent is diligently looking up names on the internet her spouse is statistically more likely the real danger. False sense of security and many lives of the accused ruined all on more feel good legislation.
hell the news papers are bad enough , i could see trying to pick a jury , Q do have you know anything about this crime from any kind of news outlet or internet web site ? A no judge i never go to that web site as god is my witness ! how is a person supposed to be presumed innocent with sort of algid victim grand standing ,
Ah! Leave it up to the backwater inbreeding state of Louisiana to say , “A registry of arrests!! Let’s segregate ’em out with the pitchfork by torch light!”
Good bless Cook County, IL!! Another public list that wants to be created!! Good grief…the sheriff there has mass murder happening everywhere and he wants a public list…
While the story here is tied to Harris County, TX, it started in IL…
http://fox6now.com/2017/08/06/national-johns-suppression-initiative-pastor-trooper-sex-offender-among-1k-arrested-in-trafficking-operation/