North Carolina’s new budget includes $500,000 in taxpayer money to keep better track of sex offenders by cataloging where they work, what cars they drive — even where they are known to travel.
But the state agency that oversees the current tracking system never asked for the money. And the lobbying group for the state’s sheriffs learned about the plan only shortly before the budget was approved. Sheriffs are tasked with monitoring offenders. Full Article
“… and places they are known to frequent.” So now we’re being surveilled to record where we go? The Registy Gestapo have begun building dossiers on each of us??
And still, the overriding question remains: Have registries been proven to be effective in reducing the number of sexual offenses? No!
Almost makes me wish i started a national registry of people to collect big money from the government, then promptly take it down then donate that money to ACSOL.
Ah, the power of the lobby and politics behind closed doors. Have to wonder if the folks at NARSOL know of this since they are tight with NCRSOL?
^This is all you need to read from the article.
It may sound a bit ridiculous, but perhaps Nicolas may have an ingenious idea? Why not create a company, owned and operated by registered offenders, that develops and produces a national registry standard?
At least this group would be the best qualified at putting out the correct information as required by law and the government would have to send a check to the very group of people it targeted in the first place. Sounds like poetic justice to me?