16 missing? Lets set the record straight, 16 letters have not been returned, or are lost in the Holiday mail; maybe not delivered to the registrant or if returned not yet delivered to whoever gets it at the LOCAL registry. Politicians always want the offender to be at fault, making people believe they run a perfect system which could not contain a flaw. Notice the absence of any check with the registrant at his/her residence which would eliminate postal errors (Nationally, the Post Office has a 6% error rate, by their own admission.).12-23-2009 Louisiana:
Hinds rate low for those failing to register
B.J. Bass of Jackson was convicted of sexual battery. Susan Landry Boudreaux was convicted in Louisiana of a crime against nature.
They are among 16 noncompliant sex offenders whose last known residence was in Hinds County.
About 2 percent of almost 400 sex offenders registered in the county have failed to comply with requirements to register every 90 days. That number is much less than the national average, according to the Hinds County Sheriff's Department. The same is also true for the state as a whole.
Monitoring sex offenders is a priority, Sheriff Malcolm McMillin said. "That's the law. We have to comply with it, and we will."
Nationally, there are about 665,000 registered sex offenders. The whereabouts of about 100,000 are unknown, according to the U.S. marshal's office Web site.
Mississippi is considered a model state for its monitoring of sex offenders, said James Gann, director of the Mississippi Sex Offender Registry.
As of Tuesday morning, 196, or 3.4 percent, of Mississippi's 5,756 registered sex offenders were noncompliant, Gann said.
Sex offenders register with the state Department of Public Safety every 90 days. With the registry checks, there is an update of the offender's residence and physical appearance.
The sex offender registry ties in with missing and abducted children and, in some cases, adults, Gann said. When those situations occur, it's important to know the sex offenders in an area and where they are, he said.
When an offender fails to register, a letter is sent to the person's last known address. If there is no response, the local sheriff's department is notified the person is noncompliant, Gann said.
Once located, those who have not complied with the law can be sentenced to as much as a $5,000 fine and five years in prison.
Handling sex offenders is like any other investigation, said Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Steve Pickett. An officer does routine checks to ensure the offenders are living where they say they live and working where they say they work, he said.
"This is another component to a department that does many different things within the community to make it safe," Pickett said.
People should be aware of who their neighbors are and who's moving in and out, Pickett said.
"Everybody in this unit takes their job very, very seriously because we see it as our way of protecting the public," Gann said. .Source.. Marquita Brown
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