The Department of Justice has issued a press release noting new improvements to the Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender website, which is now more "user-friendly" and makes it easier to find sex offenders. From the press release:
"NSOPW provides the public with information to protect themselves, their families and their communities from coming into contact with registered sex offenders," said Jeffrey L. Sedgwick, Assistant Attorney General for OJP.
NSOPW allows jurisdictions to participate in an unprecedented public safety resource by sharing public sex-offender data nationwide. It is the only government system in existence that links to public, state, territory and tribal sex-offender registries from one national search site. With a single query, NSOPW currently searches sex offender registries in up to 50 states, two U.S. territories and the District of Columbia to deliver matched results based on name, state, county, city or ZIP code. NSOPW will soon link to newly established sex offender registries, including certain Native American Tribes and additional U.S. territories.
Since its launch in the summer of 2005, there have been more than 17 million NSOPW user sessions, with 2.3 billion hits. Today, NSOPW remains extremely active, averaging 2.3 million hits per day and 14,000 daily users. Additional information can be found at www.ojp.gov/smart.
The Web site, initially known as the National Sex Offender Public Registry (NSOPR), was established in 2005 and renamed in 2006 by the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act to honor 22-year-old college student Dru Sjodin of Grand Forks, N. D. Sjodin was kidnapped and murdered on November 22, 2003, by a sex offender who crossed state lines to commit his crime.
The Office of Justice Programs, headed by Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey L. Sedgwick, provides federal leadership in developing the nation's capacity to prevent and control crime, administer justice, and assist victims. OJP has five component bureaus: the Bureau of Justice Assistance; the Bureau of Justice Statistics; the National Institute of Justice; the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention; and the Office for Victims of Crime. Additionally, OJP has two program offices: the Community Capacity Development Office, which incorporates the Weed and Seed strategy, and the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking (SMART). More information can be found at http://www.ojp.gov.
My favorite part of this press release celebrating the whole idiocy is the quote by Jeffrey L. Sedgwick, Assistant Attorney General for OJP. He said, "NSOPW provides the public with information to protect themselves, their families and their communities from coming into contact with registered sex offenders."
Do you suppose that was a misstatement in what was probably a fairly carefully crafted press release? I don't. Evidently the criminal federal government has expanded their mission from just telling everyone that Registrants were once and are now forever "sex offenders". They now feel it is their job to keep people from "coming into contact" with them.
People who are listed on this nation's Sex Offender Registries: The criminal federal government, criminal state governments, and thousands of other criminal governments in this country are stealing from you in many different ways. They are harming your spouses, children, and other family members. The majority of the citizens of this country support them. This tyranny of the majority is not acceptable. This is your country as much as it is theirs. So take it back. Do not allow these laws to exist without retaliating. These governments and people owe a debt to you that grows every day. Make them pay it.
Posted by: disillusion1998 | December 05, 2008 at 02:02 PM
Good eye disillusion. For the feds and many others, this was the plan all along. Having convinced a gullible public that all RSOs are equally dangerous and unworthy, they are now implying that RSOs should be segregated from society at all cost. It's not about protecting children from RSOs, but "communities".
This will lead to more unconstitutional laws, civil commitments and the proposal that only the government, (and Corporate America) can protect society from RSOs.
Posted by: jjoe | December 06, 2008 at 03:04 PM