Tracking Registered Sex Offenders in Your Community

The sex registries are bloated and highly ineffective because well more than half the people required to register are absolutely no threat to anyone. Law enforcement is being asked to do an impossible task and their need to focus on truly dangerous predators is impeded by the shear numbers of people registered in their local communities. This policy is OUT OF CONTROL!!!

Your article appears to suggest that the way to fix the problem is to allow law enforcement to enter the homes of sex offenders. This will solve the problem in what way??? You don't explain that because it's illogical. It presents a false alternative as the panacea to the problem.

THE PROBLEM is that there are TOO MANY low-risk offenders on the daggum lists. That's the problem! Streamline the lists and law enforcement can more effectively protect the public.

We have been hitting sex offenders more than any other crime. They have such restricted lives that they try to hide their true identities.

rape and child sex assaults should be death penalty offenses, no exceptions...stupid celebs supporting polanski a child rapist, disgusting...they are like rabid animals, there is no cure, death for offenders, no recidivism

I think if you commit sex crime, you should loose your rights and you should be castrated.

An outrageous number of the population has to register as a sex offender. But what is even scarier is that even more people do not have to register as a sex offender. Lewis Frank Brown of Montgomery Texas inapropriately touched a 6 year old when he as 21. His charges were lessened to endangering a child. So who is worse, him or the 19 year old that broke up with the 16 year old and now is a sex offender. Think about it!

We need to change the people who have to register on this list. we need to only have offenders who are dangerous to society on this list not teen age boys having sex with their girl friend. But maybe a better idea would be to keep the real offenders in jail permanently

Sex offenders need to be given life enprisonment..they never get better and people keep getting hurt. Let's make them pay for what they do for once!!! Police should have more authority to investigate sex offenders-we need to ask that?!!! Maybe if we make things more harsh it won't happen as much. It all makes me disgusted.

I agree with RWVNRAL. I provide treatment services to registered sex offenders in TX. The law has almost all convicted sex offenders register, and soon they will have to register for LIFE. This includes the 19 y/o young man who and sex with his 15 y/o girlfriend as well as other low risk individuals. The legal system does not use a valid system for evaluating risk. The inability to monitor truly high risk offenders will continue to get worse unless we reject hysteria and subscribe to science.

I agree with RWVNRAL our elected officials are to lazy to require that these registries are used for the most violent offenders. Hence you have kids who may have touch a little girl in the wrong way when he was 13 living as a sex offender for the rest of his life. offenders need to be classified according to their offenses.That way law enforcement can concentrate on the most violent offenders. But we have to remember if we allow these peoples rights to be violated we are next.

I agree w RWVRNAL. The media and many in this country are so quick to exploit and promote fear and hysteria. My biggest fear is that these rare cases drive legislation at the expense of the civil rights that have made this country a model of free and open society for hundreds of years.

I think it is time for communities to get together.
Who is going to protect our children? The laws at this point in time are not working the authorities are doing what they can with their resources.

PEOPLE GET INVOLVED.

To comment on the story ...... I'm a mother of an 18 year old Registered offender. My son was convicted of possession of child pornography. His girlfriend gave him pics of herself and later told the authorities, after they broke up. He was convicted since he had them in "his possession." This is some of the reason that the police can't keep up with the true pedophiles that are a threat to society. If prosecutors and lawmakers would reform the laws to make only the 5% of the true offenders be on the registry, then police could monitor them and keep the citizens safe! See Reform Sex Offender Laws.com

I believe as a single mom, a Christian and a child of molestation, if you are a registered sex offender and i mean one that has caused harm to "children" and has been "proven beyond a reasonable doubt by a court of law" you "LOOSE ALL YOUR RIGHTS OF PRIVACY"; you as a sex offender have forfeited those rights when you violated the child. The fact that the police or parol officers could not enter that man's home is absolutely absurd! It is not only the police who failed those women, it is the law, it is the internet allowing such acitivity to be witnessed and viewed enticing the sickness, we need to tighten up and have NO TOLERANCE for this type of filth.

This situation is going to get worse before it gets better. Most of the people on the e registry were not encaged in cild sex crime. You must thin the roster of sex offenders by first kicking out the ones that do meet the criteria as a protential danger then focus hard on those that really present themsleves as a deviant

where we live in florida we get calls from our law inforcement agency they let us know how far away they are from our home like one or two miles which puts us on guard for these sex offenders

If our system for monitoring sex offenders is in need of help, why not reach out to stay at home mom's and dad's that given the resources could substantially contribute!!!!!!

The problem is you Charlie and your liberal friends who don't want to take on the ACLU and their band of liberal lawyers that protect these scumbags and those in NAMBLA. Your the problem Charlie look in the mirror!

RWVRNAL: Why do I get the feeling you may have some personal experience. I am the relative of a Registered Sex Offender; now classified a Predator. He did not start out that way. He was a "so called" low risk. He started as a teenager and now, some 32 years later, he is so sick it is not even funny. He has been in and out of therapy. He knows how to play the game. The laws need to be MUCH, MUCH stricter. My relative has served a "whole week" in jail. He usually get probation and therapy. OH Yeah, he also has served "work release". Work release makes him laugh, he thinks it is funny. The majority of these Sex Offenders need to be taken off the street. Yes, it would help if the police were allowed in their home. They would get an idea if this person is getting ready to re-offend. They should be allowed to see the "history" on their computers etc.

I'm glad the media is promoting fear and hysteria about these sick twisted sex offenders. It is a proven fact that these people do not change, cannot change. If they are convicted of rape they should be put in prison for life. What about our children's civil rights?
Who is protecting them? Every time one of these sex offender monsters get out of jail they are at it again. All the bodies they found in Cleveland is proof.