A recent Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision likely means the Megan's Law list will be trimmed.
When Patch recently published maps showing where registered sex offenders live in various Pittsburgh communities, the effort was praised on various social media platforms where they ended up being shared.
Not everyone was pleased, however.
The people at the National Association For Rational Sex Offense Laws, an organization I didn’t know existed, sent me several critical emails and criticized the Patch practice nationally of informing readers as to where sex offenders reside.
That the information I obtained is public and available to anyone on Pennsylvania’s Megan’s Law website was irrelevant. In a letter to Patch editors posted Thursday, the organization said that publishing the sex offender locator maps so close to Halloween was “pointless” and constituted “fear-mongering.”
I wondered if people who live in the communities I mapped shared those sentiments. So I put the entire association statement on a Brookline Facebook page and posed this question: “Do you believe the names and addresses of your local sex offenders should have been posted?” ..Continue..
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