This story is carefully written to dupe the public. Story claims the offender who killed Jessica Lundsford lived across the street from where Jessica lived, and authorities failed to let Lundsford know he was there. REALITY: The offender (John Couey) was staying with family who lived across the street from Lundsford, but Couey was not properly registered as living there, therefore the AlertID system could never have informed Lundsford as the story implies.5-19-2011 Nevada:
The story is written as a sales pitch not providing the correct facts. Further, the real question is, does AlertID directly access the state registry in real time, or has it made its own copy of registry information, at some point in the past and displays that, which is not current information, it is secondarily disseminated from old records.
Reno, Nev. -- Alert I.D., a free service provided to people across Nevada, now enables users to find out whether sex offenders are living near their homes, schools and workplaces.
"They have brought to Nevada something we wish we could have done," said Acting Department of Public Safety Director Chris Perry. "This is the perfect public-private partnership."
Alert I.D. founder Keli Wilson said she met with Mark Lunsford, a Florida man whose daughter Jessica, 9, was abducted, raped and murdered by a Tier 3 sex offender who lived across the street.
But Lunsford never knew of the man's background, because authorities in Florida never told the neighbors. He asked Wilson to institute a system that allows Nevadans to find out whether such offenders are living close by so they may protect themselves and their families.
"This is a promise we made, and a promise we kept," said Wilson.
Once an Alert I.D. user logs into the system and provides an address, the user can see names, pictures and addresses of convicted sex offenders living nearby. ..Source.. by My4News
