I have various philosophical problems with public disclosure of sex offender addresses. If folks are dangerous, keep them locked up. If they’ve served their time for their crime, they’re done with it. <\/p>\n
That’s may be simplistic, but many philosophical stances are.<\/p>\n
And, nevertheless, I couldn’t resist following a link<\/a> to Family Watchdog<\/a>, which takes those registries in vairous localities and plugs them into Google Maps to show you all the registered sex offenders in a 10 mile radius or so. With pictures. And descriptions of their convictions.<\/p>\n Not that I’m sure what I would do with such information — keep my eyes open for someone named X, or who looks like Y? Not worry unless it’s just up the street? Compare the list of names to the names of parents in Katherine’s class?<\/p>\n Still … couldn’t resist. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I have various philosophical problems with public disclosure of sex offender addresses. If folks are dangerous, keep them locked up. 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