There is a lawsuit in California arguing that the child abuse registry violates the due process rights of the people of California. I haven't read most of the brief, but it is a good argument because these things sweep up people who are also "suspected" offenders. That little detail is one that the average defender of these registries is blissfully ignorant of. Regardless, they are still problematic for other reasons. One of the biggest problems is that they are not effective because they include so many trivial offenders like guys who had sex with their girlfriend in high school or peed in the bushes, and in many cases are simply not reliable in the information they do present about serious offenders. Not that the system cares.
So how to make the system care? Simple. Create an abusive government employee database. Focus it mainly on prosecutors and police. Whenever a cop or prosecutor hurts the public through criminal activity (or what should be criminal), post their full information for the public to view. Even better, track them as they go from one community to another.
That'll fix it really quickly.
So how to make the system care? Simple. Create an abusive government employee database. Focus it mainly on prosecutors and police. Whenever a cop or prosecutor hurts the public through criminal activity (or what should be criminal), post their full information for the public to view. Even better, track them as they go from one community to another.
That'll fix it really quickly.
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