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"Registry lists need to label offenders accurately"

By Corey Rayburnyung

The Newark Advocate is running an interesting op-ed arguing that current sex offender registries are inaccurate and need to be fixed. From the editorial:Convicted criminals don't deserve sympathy often, especially those who held people, including children, hostage. But Danny Seals and others like him really don't deserve the stigma attached to them long after they served their time in prison.Seals won a rare victory last week in his quest to be removed from Ohio's sex-offender registry when local prosecutors dropped a charge against him for failing to register and notify the sheriff of his current address.There's no doubt Seals failed to do those things, just as it's clear he does not belong on a sex-offender registry.He's never been accused or convicted of a sex crime, and there's no mention of the word "sex" in Seals case file from the conviction that landed him in prison for five years in 1994...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on March 12, 2009 (boomark / email).