AL: Colbert County Sheriff issues apology following “miscommunication” in sex offender notification

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Tuscumbia, Ala. – Colbert County’s top law enforcement officer issued an apology first thing Monday morning. A lack of communication with other law enforcement agencies in the county led to a delay in residents being notified of a sex offender registration.

There are 122 registered sex offenders in Colbert County. It’s part of Sheriff Frank Williamson’s job to keep up with them. Recently, however, one registration slipped through the cracks.

“I want to apologize for my part in that miscommunication,” stated Williamson.

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The police chiefs of Tuscumbia, Muscle Shoals, and Sheffield have agreed to notify residents in their city of sex offender registrations within a 2,000-foot circle. The sheriff will then notify all the residents inside a 2,500-foot circle which could include other jurisdictions.
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This is full promotion of the registry. This is akin to a stock in the middle of town square. Is this what SCOTUS said that the registry was not?

So nobody broke any laws. No one was hurt or threatened. Just a community had missed the opportunity to harrass a citizen for a few days.

Who knows what shenanigans that registrant was getting up to in that tumultuous time! Making coffee? Checking his mail? Mowing his lawn while parents didn’t bother to shield their children from his predatory gaze?

Wait, was this guy even convicted of an offense against a minor?

Think he was in contact with the sheriff in NC by chance? Brothers from different mothers perhaps?

I just love (sarcasm) how conscientious the sheriff is in wanting to over-notify the local residents. Why doesn’t that same conscientiousness apply to ensuring the rights of people to be entirely done with their punishment and to re-enter society free of all the burdens and consequences of registration?