Should we have more information about Sex Offenders?

[Halibut]

But wouldn't public availability of seeing the register get rid of mistaken identity and ppl starting rumours. I'm not saying being able to see all areas but just the area that concerns your postcode as stated in the production of I.d

 

I don't think it would, no. It's prbably more likely to propagate rumours than stop them.

 

As an aside, supposing you were to learn that someone on the register lived a few doors down from you, what would you actually do that was any different?

Walk on the other side of the street? Or what?

[Bobo11]

But wouldn't you keep them 'safe' anyway Bobo? What aspects of their behaviour or your supervision of them would you change with that knowledge?

 

I do have some sympathy with what you say, discovering there's a convicted paedophile living next door might be a disconcerting discovery, but they're probably unlikely to poo on their own doorstep.

 

But as others have pointed out, they're there already, most of them behaving themselves, so I'll put my trust in the police and probation service who are responsible for monitoring them and reducing the risk to a minimum, it's knowledge that wouldn't help me and I'd end up worrying about something that might never happen.

 

I do keep my childrensafe. They don't play out , they don't go to the shops alone. But sometime or other you have to let them make their own way to school. The bit about not doing it on their own doorstep, have you heard the saying we covert wot we see everyday

[Halibut]

I do keep my childrensafe. They don't play out , they don't go to the shops alone. But sometime or other you have to let them make their own way to school. The bit about not doing it on their own doorstep, have you heard the saying we covert wot we see everyday

 

Can I ask how old they are?

[ecky6fingers]

But wouldn't public availability of seeing the register get rid of mistaken identity and ppl starting rumours. I'm not saying being able to see all areas but just the area that concerns your postcode as stated in the production of I.d

 

no because to many uneducated people around

[esme]

and what if there is a mistake in such a register ?

 

suppose someone put an address on there as something or other street instead of something or other road and you happen to be the one it identifies

 

ok you could go and clear it up with the authorities but how do you stop the people who will have already seen the incorrect entry thinking the worst

 

once this information is published it's impossible to correct

 

now I'm not saying that you would be the victim of such a mistake, but if one person is a victim of such a mistake then that's one person too many

 

on the other hand if such a register were available to the authorities, as is the current case, then innocent people would have no reason to fear vigilantism from such mistakes

[Bobo11]

Thanks for the help guys you've made me realise wot a fool I am for wanting to keep my kids safe. I've sure learnt my lesson and from now on will be letting my children roam and do wot they want and just hope that no harm comes to them

[esme]

now you are being facetious, you look after your kids to the best of your ability

 

but if you have any suspicions about people you do not act on them yourself, you tell the police, that's what they are there for

[boyfriday]

I do keep my childrensafe. They don't play out , they don't go to the shops alone. But sometime or other you have to let them make their own way to school.

I agree, it's a difficult time deciding when they become responsible enough to become more independent, in my own case, I repeatedly gave my children the message that strangers were generally nice people, but they shouldn't talk to them, other than the usual pleasantries or be led away by them.

 

The bit about not doing it on their own doorstep, have you heard the saying we covert wot we see everyday

 

They can covet owt they want provided they dont act on it

[Bobo11]

now you are being facetious, you look after your kids to the best of your ability

 

but if you have any suspicions about people you do not act on them yourself, you tell the police, that's what they are there for

 

I have never said I would act on any information. I simply believe that a parent should have the right to access the register and all I seem to get is replies on how dangerous that would be. I would put any persons rights to protect their loved ones above the rights of a sex offender any day and if that makes me a bad person then so be it

[happyhippy]

But wouldn't public availability of seeing the register get rid of mistaken identity and ppl starting rumours. I'm not saying being able to see all areas but just the area that concerns your postcode as stated in the production of I.d

 

Nope, and it would probably ensure that these people are driven further into the shadows, further away from the authorities, further into the rings whence they possibly came in the first place, and probably more likely to re-offend as a result.

 

Equally, as has been pointed out, not everyone who is on the Violent and Sex Offenders Register is necessarily a predatory sexual deviant.