Source: rockdalenewtoncitizen.com 8/30/24
COVINGTON — The Newton County Sheriff’s Office has introduced a new way for the public to access the Newton County Sex Offender Registry.
The NCSO debuted the new feature Aug. 22 at its annual meeting with the Georgia Department of Community Supervision. The meeting is held each year to discuss updates and strategies related to sex offenders. This year’s meeting focused on monitoring homeless sex offenders and strengthening communication between law enforcement agencies.
The NCSO presented a QR code system that will be available on all physical sex offender registries located across Newton County. By scanning the QR code, residents can access the most up-to-date information on registered sex offenders in the area.
“The new QR code is part of the NCSO’s ongoing commitment to enhancing public safety through the use of innovative technology,” said Sheriff Ezell Brown. “We encourage all residents to review the sex offender list regularly through our website, our smartphone app, or by scanning the QR code located on all physical registry books in the county. If you have any concerns, do not hesitate to reach out to the Office of the Sheriff.”
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Wow PFRs are not that big of a problem with a what 3% recidivism rate what about thieves robbers or habitual drunk drivers people who constantly commit assault the actual dangers to society
What other criminal group is subject to so many ways by government to pressure citizens to check out their criminal offense. Is it not enough already to put PFR’s on a website that anyone can easily go to using Google that they need to now have a QR code to scan with their phone’s camera?
How does this not make this more like a “shaming punishment of the colonial period” because it sure seems like the “resulting stigma is an integral part of the objective” (see Smith V. Doe reasoning why the registry is not a shaming punishment) when you are pushing a QR code to have people look up PFRs when using Google to do a PFR search is more than adequate.
Someone should challenge them on this.
They have physical registry books? Do they also have encyclopedias and phone books?
What a complete waste of money.
Morons. This is what they’re wasting precious, unlimited resources on? Time and money to develop and promote something that has no chance of protecting anyone, let alone children. I am going to comment on the article.
Done. Posted the following comment to the article, and implore others to help educate Newton LE:
This is a waste of valuable resources and has no chance of protecting anyone, least of all children. After decades of research studies since the failed registry experiment began, we now have the data that reveal the following facts:
• The re-offense rate of people on sex offense registries is 3%, the lowest re-offense rate of all categories of crime except murder.
• 1/3 of sexual assault against minors is committed by other minors and 97% of child sexual abuse is committed by family members, peers, teachers, clergy, coaches, etc.
Fearmongering does not keep society safe. It is also a waste of taxpayer dollars. Please work on preventing crime; this antic is all theater.
I am telling you all, Soon there will be the requirement that all PFR will have to be tattoos
Another step towards Registry 2.0? Sooner or later this 90’s dinosaur has to join us in the 21st century. The ONLY reason the State has EVER let anyone off the Registry is the expense of keeping people on it. This is why CA created tiers?
Technology can “fix that” and not just for PFRs? Parole… probation… supervised release…GONE! Everyone is just some version of PFR for as long “as needed”? Individually customizable, updatable requirements/restrictions for as long as is “needed” for as many kinds of people/situations as one can imagine. A super cheap, “One size fits all” system, continuously customized for each individual that’s mostly automatically administered by computers.
Court’s set the duration with minimum and maximum supervision levels, and the tiny few human administrators turn “discretional requirements” on and off “as needed” for the individual. Maximum supervision for life, with an “Earn your way off” points system for some? No way off, but with “Earn reduced supervision levels” for others?
That’s not the future?
If they have physical registry books, these sheriffs have to be holding their coffee and turning the pages for these lazy karens.
“By scanning the QR code, residents can access the most up-to-date information”
Notice how they take “pride” in it being “up-to-date?.”
Very gimmicky selling point in that it implies that there is some pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
Even if the registry is kept “up-to-date” and 100% accurate, it will never be a reliable, robust or viable. public safety tool.
“UP-TO-DATE” DOES NOT MEAN RELIABLE.OR POTENT.
QR codes are a gimmicky ploy for lazy people anyway. Your personal information is being harvested every time you scan a code also.
I emailed the editor to ask her why she won’t post our comments on the article.
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As to the QR code, well ladies and gentlemen the QR code will eventually be tattooed on us just like happened to jews in the concentration camps. Implementing biometric chips is still too invasive for now but a tattoo is easier to get through a court.
This “QR” nonsense story is still grinding my gears with fury.
““We encourage all residents to review the … list regularly through our website, our smartphone app, or by scanning the QR code”
NO NO NO NO.. you are supposed to be enforcing the law, NOT “encouraging,” advocating and promoting it! They are overstepping their bounds and entering unconscious bias territory. It’s bad enough as it is, but they continue to muddy the waters by distorting and misleading with convoluted and contrived gimmickry.
The registry is a profound abuse of power and technology. When the Internet became widely available to the masses, they exploited it – same thing is happening with the QR code. SORNA continues to self-evolve into new and even higher forms of abuse, neglect and dehumanization. I cannot think of another law on the books that has that punitive effect on citizens with a PRIOR crime that their sentence has been satisfied. and resolved. .
What next, sky writing and a braille registry for the blind?
No matter the iteration or form..
YOU CAN’T MAKE IT WORK!
Okay, so this is what this is about: the Newton County Sheriff’s office is rolling-out a system that isn’t needed by anyone to access the registration website – and does nothing to enhance it – and they’re doing it right before the election. The QR Code is so that someone can scan it in a physical sex offense registration book (??) in order to get it to come up on the phone screen.
Oh, please! Since when has anyone gained access to the registry by first opening a physical registration book? A physical registration book is what was used pre-Internet. Who the h#ll accesses the registry by going to the County Sheriff’s, today?
QR codes are often very silly and for people who can’t successfully type a few characters into their web browsers. Most of them are gimmicks meant to impress us with how tech-savvy the, in this case, Sheriff is. Printing them into a “physical registry” is even more pathetic and pointless.
This is a whole lot of b.s. to make Newton County residents think their Sheriff is on the ball keeping them safe. It has zero effect on safety, accessing the registry, or even on people forced to register.
This is one of those stories that reminds us of the simultaneous stupidity of government and the electorate but which doesn’t matter to us at all except to provide us with yet another opportunity to marvel at their limitless imbecility and credulity. We certainly shouldn’t think that it has any real impact on us.
Seems kind of redundant and a waste of time and money to me. In order to access the registry, all one has to do is Google it.