Flawless Victory
Posted on 12/02/2006 5:53:18 AM PST by Man50D
Many people are not aware a registered sex offender maybe living in their neighborhood. Recently a local radio station in my area referred its listners to FamilyWatchdog. Many were shocked to find the number of sex offenders living nearby. I couldn't help but think this is also true for people nationwide. Consequently I am providing the link to Freepers. Just enter your street address, city, state and zipcode in the windows provided at the homepage then click search. A map will appear showing where registered sex offenders live and work near you. There is a map legend to help you interpret the symbols. There are many other features at the website too numerous to mention. I'll let you discover them on your own. Please be aware your state may have laws preventing anyone from harassing registered sex offenders but by knowing where they live we can hopefully keep everyone's kids safe!
They shouldn't be, given the low threshold for qualifying as one.
In the joint snitches are as reviled as child molesters, so CNN and MSNBC need to push for laws informing Americans of tattletales and busybodies in every neighborhood, telling lies and slandering little children.
I used the TX Meagan's law database and DID NOT buy two houses thanks to the information found on it. My Realtor did not tell me to look, but i made it a priority. Everyone should look about twice a year.
I checked, using my address. I was surprised at the wrong information given---as to distance from my address. If you can't trust that, can you trust the rest of it?
We complained to the management and showed them a printout from the database. They said that they only considered credit rating (not criminal or sex offender status) when making a decision as to whether or not to rent to someone.
We told our neighbors with children about the RSO but were told that we could not post signs (the RSO might sue us for harassment). The RSO always had very fancy Christmas ans Halloween decorations.
In Pueblo, CO., nobody has to 'guess'. As soon as law enforcement learns an offender is moving into a neighborhood, they call a townhall meeting and famiiarize everybody with the perp by showing his picture and the crimes he's committed.
Okay--will do!
Police and prosecutors use laws to "pile on" whenever they arrest or charge somebody. I've heard of cases where they got a beer-drinking college student who was taking a leak outdoors and charged him as a "sex offender". The priority seems to be to create as many "felons" as possible so as to be able to deny those persons constitutional rights for the rest of their lives. Often it seems they'll charge some kind of felony which any paid lawyer can have dismissed, usually in exchange for the defendant pleading out to lesser misdemeanors. The laws are abused as "bargaining chips" and, since the state has unlimited resources to prosecute and the individual usually has limited funds to defend himself, they get away with it. I'd like to see cops and prosecutors held personally liable for expenses and damages resulting from their intentional "over-charging".
That's twice in two days that I agree with you.
I think I need a nap ;-)
Trust me. That fact scares me as much as it does you.
Thank you!
Yeah, there's 2 or 3 around here. Info was, as you said, incorrect. And the individuals are well known to everybody and haven't been in any kind of trouble for 20 or 30 years. Not only that, they are old and decrepit and probably not capable of doing much harm any more.
Flawless Victory
ML/NJ
Love the site. It's the best because it differentiates between someone who is an offender of children and the other sexual cases. The 17 yr old boys who are boinking their 16 yr old girlfriends and get a statutory rape charge do not frighten me at all but you gotta watch out for those red dots.
There were only 4 listed in my county and I knew there were more so I went to another site and there are 25. I think you need a better source.
I'm not saying he's always right but my brother is a cop and this is the site he recommends. Maybe those other people have already moved or maybe they were just tried and not convicted. Just because one site has more doesn't automatically make it correct.
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