NJ Posts Sex Offender Addresses Online

New Jersey is now posting the home addresses of convicted sex offenders on the state's Internet registry, state Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced Friday.

Last month, a federal appeals court threw out an attempt by the state Public Defender's Office to shut down the Internet registry and allowed the addresses to be placed on the Web site.

On Friday, state police started posting the addresses of the offenders deemed by the courts to be the most dangerous and likely to repeat as predators. Of the 9,352 registered sex offenders statewide, 4,006 classified in those categories will have their addresses listed.

The state's effort to post the addresses was first blocked by a federal court ruling in December, which said an offender's right to privacy outweighed any state need to make the offender's personal information widely available.

Since that ruling, the state has posted only offenders' names, the county they live in and details of their crimes on its online Megan's Law registry, named for a 7-year-old New Jersey girl who was murdered in 1994.

>>>You guys are all such good, wholesome people right?

I am.

>>>But I can't vote, not just in NJ, but ANYWHERE in the US.

I support that.

>>>How many of you have ever stepped foot in a jail or a prison?

I toured Alcatraz.

>>>I looked like death when I was released because I couldn't get enough food in a day. Medical? Forget the Transsexual.....what about the normal guy who has a spinal problem, like me, and gets ONE TYLENOL per day?

Prison is not a country club. It is punishment. Our prisons in the USA our like country clubs compared to other countries. Some people in the USA don't live as well as they do in prison.

>>>What I did in my past haunts me every day of my life. I don't need to share that with the public. No Sir, No M'am, no thank you. What I did in my past haunts me every day of my life. I don't need to share that with the public.

If you aren't a repeat offender....then you have no issue. I am glad to see the system works.

AND since you have had interactions with Sex Offenders during your time AND you said you had a family; I hope you support our fears.

Yes, there is a very high recidivism rate among criminals, they come out of jail and are out committing the same crimes again. Jail has a revolving door for them. Thanks to lax laws made by the Democrats we even have a cop killer walking the streets because of these pabulum puking liberals.

I would love to know if my neighbor is gun runner, burglar, armed robber, cat burglar, purse snatcher, drug dealer or addict. Yep, I'm in favor putting the information on the net.

And why not, the arrest, court documents, conviction papers are all public information anyway.

If ex-cons are such angels and model citizens we wouldn't need parole officers, would we?

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