What a waste of money, we have got to be into the billions now on nothing but tracking, and not one red cent on prevention! There is no doubt in my mind that Congress and every state lawmaker are doing nothing but protecting jobs with these registries, that accomplish nothing whatsoever. They simply make the public feel-good, a false sense of security. The DOJ has proved that 97% of new sex crimes are by NEW OFFENDERS not those on registries. Yet, 100% of the money goes to track former offenders. Unbelievable!
10-23-2009 National:
The U.S. Department of Justice's (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced more than $7.3 million in Fiscal Year 2009 grant assistance for state, local, and tribal governments for use in implementing, training, and maintaining and enhancing sex offender programs throughout the United States.
These grants, administered by OJP's Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART), break down into three areas of funding: Adam Walsh Act (Title I) implementation, Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM) support, and Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) operation.
More than $4.6 million will be used to develop or enhance sex offender registration programs; improve law enforcement and other justice agency information sharing as it relates to sex offender registration and notification; and implement other efforts aimed at furthering the objectives of Title I of the Adam Walsh Act, the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
The Adam Walsh Act was signed into law on July 27, 2006 and is designed to protect children and adults from sexual exploitation and violent crime. The Act also aims to prevent child abuse and child pornography, promote Internet safety, and honor the memory of Adam Walsh and other crime victims. SORNA was enacted to protect the public from convicted sex offenders and offenders against children by establishing a comprehensive national system for the registration and notification to the public of those offenders.
The SMART Office will also oversee the Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM) program. More than $2.7 million will assist state, local, and tribal jurisdictions in assessing and improving their approaches to supervising, monitoring, and treating adult and/or juvenile sex offenders in the community.
In addition to the $7.3 million, another $985,000 will help maintain, operate and enhance the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public Website (NSOPW) and support the Tribe and Territory Sex Offender Registry System. NSOPW links to state, territory, and tribal sex offender public websites and allows the public to search for registered sex offenders on a national scale. With close to 20 million users and counting, NSOPW is an invaluable resource to the public. ..Source.. by Office of Justice Programs - U.S. Department of Justice
October 23, 2009
Justice Department Announces $7.3 Million in Awards, Supports Adam Walsh Act, Sex Offender Management
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The same case can be made in Florida today, in regards to the murder of the 7 year old girl - Somer Thompson. Orange Park, FL police first went to the surrounding registered sex offenders as potential suspects; however, so far no leads (at least being made public) with these 70 or so individuals.
So what has occurred is 70 people have been presumed guilty of a crime without significant probable cause. Probable case being that many of these registered sex offenders have not in the past been associated with murders crimes. As such, these individuals have lost all rights to privacy and due process of law. They are guilty of future crimes simply because congress and the public says so. Moreover, regardless of the sexual crime any one of these offenders have been convicted of, they are now automatically assumed murderers.
It is certainly no secret why government implements overreaching child safety laws; if government cannot protect society's children who can they protect. However, where do we draw the line on responsibility? What price are we willing to place on false security? And how far are we, as a society, willing to go in persecuting private citizens?
At best, this latest case in northern Florida further proves that sex offender laws are feckless toward preventing future child endangerment. And, at worst, sex offender laws are placing former offenders of a "sex crime", who have ideally already paid the price of their crime, in danger of future violations of individual liberty and due process of law.
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