LAS VEGAS (Aug. 16) -- Eager to protect children from sexual predators, Nevada and other states across the nation are adopting laws that publicize the names of offenders on the Internet. This is COMPLETELY necessary. People in communities need to know what to be looking for, however the sex offenders are livid. But sex offenders say they have rights, too, and argue it's wrong to lump those guilty of minor offenses with the worst offenders. Some are challenging the laws. An offense is an offense, period. Clearly it was the offenders fault for getting themselves in the situation to begin with. It's their responsibility to take what ever cosequences come with that. Even if it is being "lumped" with worst offenders.
Nicole Cass
AMH1041 1005-1120am TR
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Ordinarily when I see a post like this I'd come in from a different perspective whether I believed it or not just to play Devil's Advocate. I'd make the case that once a criminal has served his time and "paid his debt" to society he should be free from any additional scrutiny or persecution.
But child crimes are no ordinary crimes- they are of an evil that makes most sick. Knowing that many child sex offenders are often repeat offenders dictates that we make an exception with this particular type of criminal. I'm not for lynch mobs and continued persecution of these people, however I do feel that the populace is not out of bounds when asking to be informed of the prescence of these people.
Jason Herbert
AMH 1041
TR 10:05
Maybe so Jason, but I believe too, that as exemplified in so many elections or prejudice killings of homosexuals, and discrimination against entirely unaffiliated American citizens of middle-eastern descent, the general populace is a simply ignorant, egocentric one to say the least. Sociologically inept in most tolerance cases.
Maybe if the offenders were to be monitored by law enforcement, or if all homes within a 2 mile radius of the sex offender were notified there was a PRIOR offender in their area, but not which house, and what the offenders name is. As a person with great discretion for things like this, It's preferable to know who and precisely where, but also understanding that the majority hath not the discretion that I do, I would understand why I wasn't receiving a name phone number, house address, favorite dessert, copy of previous criminal record, and list of recreational hobbies of the offenders in my area.
If the offenders released from prison are still so much a threat that they should be outcast and avoided like lepers, maybe we should start at the source and lobby for a tougher screening system.
..just a thought.
Steve Bosserman
AMH 1041 (T/R 1005-1120)
Quinnellk
Sex offenders should be put on the Internet. Who would think to ask their sheriff's office for a list on names with pictures of the sexual predators that stay in their area. I think it's very necessary for them to be put on the net.
Annie Lawrence
AMH1041
TR 1005a-1120a
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