April 21, 2009

NC- Sex offender rules not clearly stated

WOW, gotta love this person going after the locals; hire her! If the Sheriff's office explanation is correct and permits excluding a RSO from that library, then where on earth can a RSO live or be since children learn everywhere they are or go?

4-21-2009 North Carolina:

A friend of ours is a sex offender. If you do a search of sex offenders in Fayetteville, you will discover that this is probably not so unusual, because they are very common. We are very respectable people and know three (one was a neighbor).

One of them was recently told that the Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office now considers libraries to be a “place where children are educated” and therefore off limits to sex offenders. This is new. Our county library system places only the children’s area off limits.

I am writing this letter because I have every reason to believe that the Sheriff’s Office will not inform the offenders on their registry of this new rule. This is based on my experience of the registry office and how it operates.

It also is possible that this was said in anger to our friend and will never be enforced. I have no way of checking because the registry office has made it clear that there is no written list of the rules governing sex offenders in the county and that they do not feel obliged to tell anyone, even a sex offender, how Cumberland County is interpreting the law.

A local lawyer has stated that any restriction will be upheld by our local courts and that lack of notification is not a defense that will work — until somebody has the money to plead not guilty and gets a higher court to rule, that it is. ..Source.. by Wendy Michener, Fayetteville

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