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A Commentary
While browsing the web recently for additions to this portion of my web site I have been noticing a startlingly high rate of incidence where authorities have overruled or maybe changed the definition of the Sex and Child Offender Registration Act of 1997. (For Oklahoma law click here)
It is my understanding this act was to help protect our families from sex offenders. What I have been seeing is time after time the authorities have ruled this is not legal or must be changed, making it hard if not almost impossible for a concerned parent to see if a registered sex offender is living in their area.
It is quite obvious to me that those who have made such judgments have no children that may be endangered, that if they do have children they are so well protected they do not believe that they can be harmed, or they are so swayed by political correctness that they let their logic be replaced by what they interpret as the desire of our society.
Possibly they believe that once a registered offender is out of prison that they have paid their debt to society. A online registry is just one way to HELP keep tabs on an offender. It by itself will not be enough, but taking even this mode of public access away from the citizens is, in my personal opinion not only irresponsible but should be considered criminal. And, if an offender does repeat because he could not be tracked, should not the person who disallowed the information needed to track the offender share some of the guilt and maybe even a part of the sentence?
It is a pity that some technicality or political correctness may in the future (and probably the near future at that) endanger the life and welfare of one of our children.
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Opinion No. 99-017 Nineteenth East Judicial District, Prosecuting Attorney AR 1999
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