Current Events > An interesting article about the registry

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Its an online compilation of every person in Colorado convicted of what most people imagine are only the most heinous sexual crimes, revealing who they are, what they look like and where they live. Only the Colorado Sexual Offender Registry is not that simple.

Experts say the person you think you should fear most might actually be no more of a threat than anyone else.

Or they could be a serious reason to worry. Or they might have been trouble at one time, but are no longer be a threat, and instead are being punished for whatever crime they committed long after they are released from prison.

But theyre one of about 18,000 people, about 800 in Aurora, thousands in the metro area, on a list that was created to help protect people from incorrigible sex offenders.

But critics say its nothing more than an inaccurate and misleading website that needlessly causes worry among Colorado residents and cruelly and dangerously continues to punish convicts long after theyre released from prison.

Last summer, a federal judge fired at the states registry, ruling that in the case of three Colorado men, it exposed them to punishments inflicted not by the state but by their fellow citizens.

The ruling in which U.S. District Court Judge Matsch blasted lower courts for their handling of some sex offenders cases and called the registry itself cruel felt to some opponents of the registry like it would be a blow to the registration system. Even Colorado Attorney General Cynthia Coffman, who defended the registry, called the ruling concerning, and vowed to fight it.

But in the months since, not much has changed. Even the three men who challenged the registry, and who Matsch sided with last fall, are still on the registry. And the registry has added names since, growing to more than 18,000 names.

Alison Ruttenberg, the lawyer who represented the three men who challenged the registry said that until a higher court rules on Coffmans appeal, the future of the registry remains murky.

Everything is in limbo, Ruttenberg said.

The whole article is interesting.

So let me ask CE this: Should the registry be pruned and/or made available to the police only?
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I thought I ignored you, Aaron.
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SSBBSB posted...

I thought I ignored you, Aaron.

Weird? And why
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Crystal_pony posted...

Weird? And why

You are a mere gnat.
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I thought this was about the Windows registry.
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