Antigua: Sex offenders registry to be established
Attorney General Steadroy Benjamin says residents will soon be alerted when a sex offender moves into their neighborhood by the creation of a sex offenders registry.
The formulation of a registry was being discussed for a number of years.
Now, the AG says that once convicted, the names of all sexual offenders will be placed on a public registry from early next year.
I wonder when they are going to start their ‘drug runner’ registry…or are too many government officials involved to want to see that happen?
Capt Charles. Much of this registry is confusing. Sure one can use either a bit of Christian Justice, Vain Justice or even use Criminal Justice but one sided justice is a string em up hang em high. Sure Florida is a beautiful State as well as others but true justice is still based on principals and true values and yes one has to have principals in there also.
Yes many go to retire in Florida but when this registry and vain justice gets out of hand one has to say hey wait a minute. Yes justice is going off the deep end in many respects and has become blind in many ways as this registry is for many. So were is true value in America and the Justice system or is it a type of Court Marshall justice for all involved in civil justice matters.
“We hang petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop, Greek slave & fable author
This just shows that this “Country and World” will never abolish the Sex Offender Registry !!!!. There is just TOO MUCH MONEY involved in it !!!!!! And it’s another FORM OF CONTROL !! . There is only ONE WAY off the Registry ! And that is DEATH !!.
Tired
This also shows how much influence the U.S is to the World. Even though this is horrible what they are doing to us, other countries see us as an example. If it is ok here, it must be ok everywhere.
If I am not mistaken, WE (The U.S) created the first sex offender registry. I have lost track of how many countries have it now, but it even affects us gaining entry into many countries, and I personally did not renew my passport due to this. It use to only be a hassle coming back into the U.S, now it may get you turned back completely.
Speaking of getting off the registry, for anyone who thinks getting off of it will make all your problems go away, think again. From what I have been told, you will still have travel and other issues. Many of the records will be there forever, regardless of registry status.
Yes CJ, I, too, Have Been Told by ‘Others’ that from CBP, to USMS, to Homeland Security, to Interpol, to NCIC, etc,,,,all ‘the info’ will always be there!
And, of Course ‘Google and other algorithmic search engines’ will always have it! (Unless, you got about $100K-plus to pay an expert to mine your data to be put at the end of a Google search-yes, it can be done)-but your info will always be out there!
-the Good and Bad about technology!
And Remember, Flori-DUH, pays Google, for example, to put your FDLE file first in a Google Search! SO, that all person’s forced to register, that info always comes up first in a search of your name!
-and, that, to me, is not just not right, but beyond comprehension and down right EVIL!
-there, are no other State Jurisdictions, that does this, that I am aware of!
TruthandScience, Please provide a source for your statement that, “Flori-DUH, pays Google, for example, to put your FDLE file first in a Google Search!”
This is news to us, so I am particularly interested to learn where you get this information from.
If Florida pays Google one isn’t doing their job. When I enter my name into the search engine my Florida membership doesn’t pop up first, it’s usually 4th or further down. Wouldn’t mind if it vanished into thin air. I’ll hold my breath….
Florida may not be directly paying Google, but they are paying someone for a bang up SEO job.
FAC#3,
It is Quite Simple, you Pay Google to be First on The List Using the Search Tool, or When Someone Starts Typing into Google..It is Algorithmic Based, So, Any Programmer at Google Can Put in Place any Scheme, they want…So ‘Paying’ can also be ‘Donating’…
Read Through the Lines….You will never see the ‘transaction between the State Jurisdictions’, but it exists….trust me!
This is no Conspiracy Theory, this is just business…bad business, in my opinion!
So You can go to the Google Advertising Info, and see it for yourself!
‘People’ Pay for Search!
Happy New Year!
We can’t “read through lines” unless there is some evidence that the State is paying to put Registrants at the top of Google search results, nobody reading this should repeat that statement.
What kind of a system is it that focuses on a failure in one’s life and totally ignores any good that person has done? I am more than willing to have my background compared with any politician…especially the ‘do-gooder’ politicians, since their activity is frequently an effort to hide their own background.
Capt.
I say it’s a system that makes everything a country supposedly stands for a joke. We all stumble and some fall more than others. Last thing I need is the government to gossip about the darkest days of my life; while saying it’s not punishment. At this rate I trust a sewer rat more than a politician.
Actually, many states – Florida, most notably – keep the dead on their registries despite registration being for life.
It would be a good thing to audit, considering states receive funding based on the number of registrants they have, as well as “substantial compliance.”
The problem is that no one at the so-called SMART office is interested in finding such violations. That would lead to slashed funding to the states and from Congress. The last thing in the world any government check writer wants is to come in at or under budget in any given year.
Dustin
Those scary “Dead” sex offenders are the worst kind. I heard they can even walk through walls to get to their next victim. So yeah, they must be kept on the registry. So if nothing changes I guess my legacy upon death will live on forever.
I guess other places want to import this toxic cancer we have here in the US. Good luck with that.
One country I wouldn’t want to follow is the United States. Not saying I hate our country just hate what’s been allowed on our soil against fellow Americans. Don’t think foreign governments are going to destroy the United States, I believe we’ll destroy ourselves from within. A house divided will not stand, but a house United will.
Another idiot country. The world is infested with idiots like cockroaches. Darwinism is not working well enough.
And of course their magic Registries are only for sex. Nothing else is harmful or dangerous.
Will
Keep the lights off and have lots of paper laying around. When the time comes crush their exoskeletons to your hearts content. A good cockroach is a dead one.
How much US foreign aid is being given to them to do this from our tax dollars since that seems to be how this idea spreads to those who want it but can’t/don’t want to fund it. Again, the US benefits by being notified of who is coming here that has to register there.
Will this affect travel to Antigua for RSOs? It has been fine for us to visit the last 3 years
(Please use the comments section under this Newspaper Story in the St. John’s Observer- here’s mine):
The sex offense registry has been a complete failure here in the USA. Every single study that has been done by government and academia has clearly shown that the registry does nothing to prevent sexual violence. In fact, it may actually be exacerbating the problem.
Unlike most criminal recidivism percentages (which tend to be above 50%), sex offender recidivism is exceedingly low (at between 2 and 5 %).
Sex offender registries do nothing except to create a hated class of social lepers who are never able to reintegrate back into society. In many cases, these lepers are legislated into homelessness and poverty because of government restrictions on where they can live, and the extreme stigma of being on a publicly published government blacklist.
Hatred and revenge are not the way to stop sexual abuse.
Now Brandon I did not say that about a house divided unless the core is rotten. Guess the Government won the War between the states and side stepped court law. Sex laws so how many times does one pay with blood, sweat, and tears. Today one has to look at laws as a renovator and the American Public is a bit blindsided to “punishment of errors” in this he said she said or I’m home alone nonsense. Well I got them to text to come down and talk dirty to them. Call it discernment or whatever you’d like.
Even Washington chopped down the cherry tree. At times induced punishment is a bit much but when it comes right down to it you have to take a stand even in corrections to re-correct. Sure with this registry we all suffer in many ways with this vain type of justice system. Did they not protest the Vietnam war.
How nice of big government to tell other sovereign nations that a person with a sex offense on their record is coming? How many crimes that lands one on the registry here is illegal in other countries? What business is it for the government to notify a country of someone’s travels when they don’t give notice for criminals? Our government needs to butt out of every aspect of one’s life. Bless Rep. Chris Smith’s heart for IML; which has nothing to do with what happened to Megan. He’s dirty than a bar’s floor during Happy Hour.
Brandon
Please do not insult a bar’s floor by comparing it to Chris Smith LOL
Bar’s lives matter. Now buy me a beer and we can call it even. 🙂
CherokeeJack
Root beer and circus peanuts are in the cyber mail. I apologize to all bar floors for comparing you to Chris Smith.