NV: Las Vegas police partner with smartphone app to show sex offenders in neighborhoods ahead of Halloween

Source: foxnews.com 10/28/22

Parents can view registered sex offenders’ addresses on the Offender Watch app, which partnered with Las Vegas police

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has partnered with an app that show residents where sex offenders live in their neighborhoods ahead of Halloween.

The free app called Offender Watch says on its website that it allows parents to “track your children, map offenders nearby, get alerts if your child is contacted or lingers near an offender’s residence, safety tips, and more.”

LVMPD partnered with the app so users can “view the locations of registered sex offenders’ home addresses within” the department’s jurisdiction.

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Wow! Talk about taking ridiculous to a new level. If the kid is “lingering too long”?

Copy of email I sent to LVPD.

Hello,
Wanted to let you know that as a registrant , I can honestly tell you that you people think about sex offenses WAY more than 95% of registrants do. The stupid apps, the signs and all the crap you keep thinking of to “identify” us to to the public only makes you look more like perverts than you seem to think that we are. Isn’t the registry enough for you guys? And if it isn’t, then maybe it’s because you aren’t doing YOUR jobs good enough. 

sincerely,

In the article when I read it was a link to a fentanyl warning for parents at Halloween which seems more applicable.

This is the future, and it won’t just be Halloween. Soon, smartphones will be pinging every time one is near your home. Also that, “lingering” feature has nightmare potential written all over it. Every Karen in the nation is going to get this, and lose their mind the moment their precious darling gets within a country mile of your home. Then, she’ll blame you for being there…then off to the city council!

This is just the next step in the plan to not just destroy any sense of privacy, but any semblance of peace…or security. The technology is moving more and more from a “pull” based system…
Go to website
Enter search criteria ( address, zip, radius)
Get results

To a “push” technology.
When your smartphone gets within x feet of my residence, it pings to alert you.
If your kid’s phone gets “too close” both their and your phone ping

Soon, they will have a way to ping off of you, not just your residence. Probably using your smartphone’s GPS, to track you and push that out to an app to ping everybody around you. Send them an alert, with your picture…so they can spot you. Their will be a, “Parent and Child” version of course. Ping you both when ever precious is, “too near” so Karen can call the police. Precious has a right to go wherever precious wants…without you being there!

Illegal to use your phone for this? Might be today, but Karen and Daren will, “fix that”. That lifetime, inescapable GPS requirement from Wisconsin will help. If they can Ankle monitor people for life, why can’t they smartphone monitor everyone? Of course they can, in the name of, “Public Safety”! Then it’s just a hop, skip to sending that GPS data out through an app. That might take some legal wrangling…but Karen and Daren are relentless!

Of course, facial recognition is also coming. The technology is already here, and getting better. Karen scans the area with her phone to send the facial data to be processed. Use the sender’s GPS to rank possible matches based on residences nearest to the location. Closer you live to wherever Karen just captured your imagine, more likely it is to recognize you. It will also remember where Karen spotted you, so when she goes back to the same place, you will be top of the list for a possible match.

Of course, ever store, restaurant, publicly accessable place in your neighborhood will also use it…so they know who you are…so they can deny services the moment you walk in the door.

Technology is going to start alerting people to your presence in multiple ways. Soon, technology will start announcing your presence to everyone in a 100 foot radius…100 yard…1,000 yards… miles? Will it be legal? Probably not…but what does that mean? It will happen, legal or not. Where there is money to be made, someone will do what it takes to make it!

Yep,
The DDI certainly is a game changer. And the advantages wrought by and thru its use are immeasurable to be sure. The sex offender was simply the path of least resistance to normalize certain attitudes concerning its benevolence among the people. In essence, good marketing.
There is another man on YT talking about the same things I’ve been harping on. He calls his channel Upper echelon. He posted a vlog a ten days ago titled: A disgusting secret ring inside G**g1e photos in which he lays out certain events related to sex offender issues and TicTok.
What he describes includes interactions with federal agents @IACA & NCMEC all which correlate to the fantasy that the DDI would protect people when nothing is further from truth. Interesting enough. But if ya take a look at the comments section you’ll see folks warning the guy what could happen to him and his vlog should he piss off the wrong people. He also describes the necessity of using coded language and underage material. I refrain from posting a link now because any association to ACSOL in any way may cause harm to the org, so you’ll have to search YT yourself to find his channel. I’m not implicating UE because he is trying to do the right thing, but considering ACSOLs audience, I just cannot. What I am saying is that our leadership had the opportunity to reject unfettered use and application by the people, but they blew it with Smith V Doh, erroneously believing they could stay ahead of it through prophylaxis.
The same ineffective prophylaxis provided by the usage warning on state’s SORs themselves. The point being there would be no need to use such a warning if misuse was not already anticipated prior to it’s availability to the public.

In NV, are they violating the registry terms of service/use when they share data with the company that owns the app? Also, I would assume the state owns the data so the police dont have the jurisdiction or authority to share said data. Thoughts?

A quick look on Google Play shows over 30 different apps. Plus you have several copycat websites that crawl the registries and repost the information. Then there’s groups on social media sites that share information about us.
My point is, is another app really necessary considering the State police already maintain the registries?
How many more apps and websites does the public need? This is really stupid.

Being as a registrant in Las Vegas, I want to thank ACSOL for bringing this to our attention. When will the injustices that our US government continues to invoke on individuals such as myself, who have paid their debt to society end. I have always said that the registration is just a nicer term for being on a life time parol. Think about it for a moment, you are required to follow certain conditions just like when you are on parol. You are required to report to your local law enforcement agent at least once a year, just like when you were on parol. A law enforcement agent visits you at your home to check on you, just like when you were on parol. This witch hunt against registrants will never end until we all decide to come out of the hiding and conduct nationwide peaceful demonstrations against the registry. We must show them that we are no longer afraid, as fear is their number one weapon against registrants. I ask that we please unite as registrants, as strength in numbers is our number one weapon against the registry.

I’m sick and tired of being treated like a dangerous zoo animal, not only on Halloween, but year-round!

“Offender Watch” Watch? Watch what? Oh, that’s a lie. Why don’t they just call it what it is:”Offender Stalker.”

the cool thing is in about 20 years we will have a sex offender about every 50 feet so there will be NO MORE TRICK OR TREATING, then they will be hyping a event that doesnt occur because of fear mongering.

Offender watch just deleted my info as I emailed them I am no longer on the registry. Their customer service handled it quickly. I suggest anyone that’s been removed email them.