ACTION NEEDED: NARSOL Press Release: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children issues press release attacking some of the American Law Institute’s recent recommendations for registries
Recently, the American Law Institute (ALI) proposed that the registry “be taken out of online accessibility and be, as they were originally intended, in only the domain of law enforcement.” ALI used research-based data along with experts in the field and clinicians to develop their recommendations.
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), co-founded by John and Reve Walsh, claims that some of the recommendations could endanger children. “Children will be endangered by the Revised Code’s limitations on prosecuting sex trafficking and its removal of most protections provided by sex offender registries.” What protection is needed from the hundreds of thousands of registrants in this country who are now law-abiding citizens? NCMEC, how are you protecting children from the people who will be committing 90% or more of the future sex crimes? NCMEC, how are you protecting children from the perpetrators known to the child before the sex offense, which is at least 93% of the sex offenses against children?
NCMEC’s assumption is that registries help protect children.
Please read NCMEC’S press release and help to educate them at:
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
333 John Carlyle Street, Suite #125
Alexandria, Virginia 22314-5950
703-224-2122
FAC Media has contacted NCMEC, but we need additional people to also contact them. Please consider in your communications with NCMEC that we are NOT saying that people with a past sex offense should be able to get jobs working with children; what we are saying is that keeping people on the registry who are law-abiding citizens is wrong. There are other ways to find out about a prospective employee’s background rather than having a registry. We do not want to get into an argument that could deflect from our mission: abolishing the registry.
Research can be found at floridaactioncommittee.org in the Media dropdown box: Articles and Studies Containing Research and at narsol.org.
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It is during these times that we need to stand together. Neither FAC or NARSOL can afford to put out unverified information and it is important that we back up the leadership in both organizations. When either organization mentions verification it is not to put down the originator of the input but to let all who may view the input know that correct information is important to our cause. Sex offenses can involve a range of actions and accusations so FAC and NARSOL must address all in order to be sure to not appear to be down on some and OK with others. Any sexual offense should be brought into the light and certainly not supported. Truth be known, all have at one time committed some sort of sexual offense…after all we are human…but our goal is to bring out the negative aspect of the offense, encourage true repentance and then restore an individual to a productive lifestyle. Life is too valuable to waste on a lifetime of punishment.