+330 The rights of citizens to know that there is sex offender in their neighbourhood exceeds any rights that a sex offender has to privacy, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Discuss. And, yes, I am aware that some sex offenders may not be so (IE, an 18-year-old who has sex with their 17-year-old partner, and gets convicted of sex with a minor) but those are in the vast minority.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

The value of privacy is overrated in many cases. If you think about it privacy almost always benefits wrongdoers because people have little motivation to be private about anything good.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Very rare concidering there is a 2 year age acceptance so you could be 17 and 19 or 16 and 18 plus the age of consent in most places is 16 anyways.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

My neighbor has a sex offendor living inside of him...?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

fdsdsfkjsdkjkdfjkfsd HOLY SHIT I LEFT OUT THE REST OF THE WORD I'm guessing since it's a positive score everyone figured out I meant neighbourhood /shame.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

you, sir, are amazing. just saying.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

You know what, fuck this PC "sex offender" bullshit. The rights of citizens to know that there is RAPIST in their neighbourhood exceeds any rights that a RAPIST has to privacy, amirite?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

40 year old man screws a 14 year old girl and it's not rape. Still a sex offender, still need to know.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

except... it is rape

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It is rape. Rape is defined as unconsented sex - if you are under the age of consent, then you cannot legally give consent, so anyone who has sex with a minor is having unconsented sex.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There's an App on the Iphone that tells where the REGISTERED sex offenders are in or around, what offense they got, a picture, and a full bio. Not to be racist, but around my city, the stereotype of sex offenders are African-american males 20-45.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's like rapist baseball cards. :D

by Anonymous 12 years ago

To 45 what?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Seriously? Years old...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Oh. I read it wrong. Sorry.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

There is a sex offender that has a crime against a child within 10 miles of where I live. I went to familywatchdog.us and when I clicked on the location, it said "buy a background report". I shouldn't have to buy a background report. It should be available. I understand that running a site like that costs money, but we should have access to that information.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Not that I disagree with you, but who runs the site? If it's the government, I think it should be free, but if it's a private company, I can understand the need for cash to maintain the site (and corporate greed, of course).

by Anonymous 12 years ago

It's the government, I believe. The site gives the location and offense, but there's more to a sexual offense charge...

by Anonymous 12 years ago

Private corporations would probably not have any of that information (or very little) if the government wasn't releasing it.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

What about the teens that are sexting and forever get put on the sex-offender list under child-pornography? Should that count?

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I actually have mixed feelings about this.I guess I think that it should be case by case, with any more dangerous sex offended having to tell their neighborhood(e.g. anyone who has commited multiple rapes, anyone who has commited rapes to strangers...) While some cases, they should not make telling the whole neighborhood mandatory. The reason I think this is because I do not imagine everyone would be very willing to have a sex offender living in their neighborhood and may even try to make life harder for them with protests and such. While it is understandable for people to feel uneasy, most rapes are not random and are to someone the rapist knows and loves, they just have messed up ways of showing their love or filling their urges. Anyway, like I said I think it should be case by case, and they should be pretty conservative with choosing the cases where they do not make the sex offender tell their neighborhood.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

I think that depends entirely on the TYPE of offense. I know someone who got caught with dirty pictures of his then-seventeen year old girlfriend on his phone. He now has to be a registered sex offender for most of the rest of his life. He cant give out candy on Halloween or anything just because of a picture.

by Anonymous 12 years ago

yes ofc. If you are a convicted offender then you have no rights to privacy, just like the kid/s they molested did not either. Unfortunate but they need to be put somewhere and with prisons full with minor offence criminals what else to do but make people aware there's a rapist living next door

by Anonymous 7 years ago