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Posted by Navigatr1 on Mar 19, 2006 02:49 AM | Also by Navigatr1

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A warning from Iowa on sex offender laws
http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060316/REPOSITORY/603160329/1027/OPINION01

Monitor editorial
March 16. 2006 8:00AM

Dubuque County, Iowa, has 101 registered sex offenders. Concord has 102, and that's just counting the offenders in the state registry whose victims were children. The total count is much higher because child sex offenders make up only a little over a third of the roughly 3,100 registered offenders on the state's list.

The comparison with Iowa is important because the House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee meets again today to prepare to hand Gov. John Lynch's sexual predators act over to the Senate. Many of the changes called for in the omnibus act would, or at least could, protect public safety. But some are simply punitive and of dubious value.

And one, which would give communities the power to ban sex offenders from living within 1,000 feet of a school, day-care center or park, would do more harm than good.

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Message 174562 (In Reply to Message 174526)

Posted by 1dadof5 on Mar 24, 2006 05:31 AM | Also by 1dadof5

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it appears that common sense people are starting to sit up and take notice of this crazy hysteria that is gripping the nation. This hysteria started with drugs in the 80s and now 20 years later we have learned that all those laws have failed miserably. How long will it be before we finally realise how inept and draconian these sex offender laws are? Well over 10 years have passed since these stupid laws have been passed and yet there has been no proof whatsoever that they have done any good at all in preventing sex abuse. One day common sense may return to lawmakers....oh... wait....that was just a crazy dream. We all know lawmaker have no common sense

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