WI- Wisconsin gets grant to enhance sex offender registry

It never ceases to amaze me how public officials drool over getting money, especially to update a glorified phone book. FREE Google blogs could be used as registries and save taxpayers tons of money, but to do so would put many state workers out of a job. Further, there is no proof that any registry reduces crime or recidivism, but there is proof that it provides a false sense of security.

4-29-2008 Wisconsin:

Madison -- Wisconsin has received a federal grant to make further improvements to its sex offender registry, state Department of Corrections Secretary Rick Raemisch said today.

The state will get a one-year grant of $204,780 to be able to make faster updates to the Web site and expand a system for verifying address information. It will also allow the state to work with the University of Wisconsin-Platteville's criminal justice program to evaluate the state's existing operations in the context of new federal laws on sex offender registries.

"Wisconsin is leading the nation in strategies to tighten the net around sex offenders and prevent them from becoming anonymous in our communities," Raemisch said in a statement. "But keeping our kids safe is a never-ending job."

Read the full statement in the attachment here. ..more.. by Stacy Forster