Nearly 1,800 Massachusetts sex offenders did not have a current address on file with the state’s registry, and close to 1,000 of those convicted criminals had not been classified by their likelihood to reoffend, according to an audit released Tuesday by state Auditor Suzanne M. Bump. Full Article
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Humans should not be “tracked” in the first place.
To those whose whereabouts are unknown due to absconding, I say, godspeed. I wish them well and I hope they succeed in giving a big middle finger to the machine that continues to enslave us long after we’ve supposedly paid in full for our transgressions. A person can only take so much, and I completely understand why a registered citizen would reach a point where he’d rather just take his chances and run.
“One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.” -MLK
The tracking of human beings who aren’t under investigation or any kind of punishment custody is unjust. Full stop.
I wonder what kind of “surge” in sex offenses MA has suffered by this lack of tracking? I doubt there’s a shred of evidence it has had any effect on anything. One would almost think it points to the registry as being a colossal waste of time and money.
You mean I could have gone to Massachusetts and gotten “lost?”
I’m always late to these parties.
“denied the public access to information names, addresses and photographs about sex offenders who lived in their areas and were likely to commit another offense” .
Guess Auditor Bump has a crystal ball, she can foresee things in the future that those of us mere mortals can’t!
Would be interesting to know just how many more sex offenses there were in Mass. during this time that they were missing all those registry statistics. Probably made no difference at all.
Oh wait, Auditor Bump will probably predict “a lot more”.
Give me a break!!!!!!!!!!!
More than likely this “audit” is no news story at all ….. perhaps misleading information for the purpose of creating some political outrage. This has been an ongoing issue in MA since John DOE v. DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY AND CORRECTIONAL SERVICES was decided March 2013 that forced MA to remove many from the list. MA was very slow to remove names from Doe v MA DPSCS and probably still has not removed everyone affected by this ex post facto ruling.
Here is an old news story link from Jan 2016 that tells about the on going situation from 2103: http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/01/14/mass-forced-to-remove-names-from-sex-offender-database/