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Men cleared from sex offender registry

By "eAdvocate"

12-11-2010 Georgia: A man convicted of a 1993 armed robbery and false imprisonment in DeKalb County has been taken off the state's sex-offender registry because his offense did not involve a sex crime. An order, recently signed by DeKalb Superior Court Judge Gregory Adams, removes Omar Howard from the registry's strict restrictions and is the result of legislation passed earlier this year. "The General Assembly should be commended for recognizing it's unwise to dilute the sex offender registry with people who aren't actually sex offenders," said Sarah Geraghty, a lawyer with the Southern Center for Human Rights. Howard was put on the registry because his false imprisonment conviction involved a minor and, at the time of his conviction, the law did not make a distinction whether it involved a sex offense...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 11, 2010 (boomark / email).