Advocates call for an end to the public sex offender registry
OMAHA, Neb. (FOX 42 KPTM) — A shooting in North Omaha has sparked concerns over the state sex offender registry. Following the death of Mattieo Condoluci, members of the National Association of Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) are calling for the state to remove the public state sex offender registry.
“If he was not on the registry I have no doubt he would be alive,” NARSOL Vice Chair Robin Vander Wall said.
Vander Wall said the current system requiring sex offenders to register and make their address public is not effective in keeping the community safe.
“The statistical research and the data now that has been done over the last decade just demonstrates almost uniformly that they aren’t doing any good. They aren’t really accomplishing any useful policy purpose. They are kind of feel good laws, they make people feel safe, but at the end of the day they are not really safe,” Vander Wall said.
Local sheriff’s departments are responsible for doing compliance checks on people listed on the state sex offender registry. Fox 42 reached out to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department, but no one returned the request for comment.
In Nebraska the online sex offenders registry lists an offenders name, current address, the crime committed and a photo. According to Fairbank’s ex-wife, Fairbanks killed Condoluci after learning he was a sex offender.
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Here’s an idea that could possibly be used (by a professional attorney) to argue the registry; The registry was made because of 1, maybe 2 instances of child abduction/murder: Jason Wetterling and Megan Kanka. TWO children out of how many millions? And the powers that be love to use the tag line “if it saves just 1 child”. Ok, so we have about 7 or 8 (maybe more) registrant murders since the registry was enacted. Perhaps it’s time to use their own tag line right back at them for abolishment if the registry by saying; “If it saves just 1 life and family” (don’t forget a wife was murdered along with her registrant husband).
I am not for private registration either as that will still require periodic registration as well as stamps on your passport and/or drivers license. We lived without a registry prior to the 1990’s and we can live without one again. Period.
Lots of people commit lots of different crimes. Crimes will never stop happening. People will not stop being born and growing up to potentially commit crimes (even if petty), so stop picking on one sole criminal act as if its the ONLY crime anyone is entitled to know about for their so called “protection”.
Who is in danger of the teenagers that got caught having sex in pubic? Or even the adults?(remember the couple on the beach a few years ago?) yeah. Where is the “danger” from such acts? These are the types of things getting harmless people on the hit list and ruining their lives. No travel, branded IDs, not being allowed to go into a hospital when your wife is giving birth, not being able to get certain benefits, not being able to get business loans, etc. all because you got caught screwing on a beach. Or had a consensual affair with a post pubescent teen a year shy of the states legal age. Or were lied to by the teen and maybe even shown false IDs that the teen obtained (never forget Traci Lords and what she did because people who aren’t legal age to consent also don’t understand what they’re doing sarcasm).
I say we start using their own tag line right back at them. Suppose the next registrant to get killed is with his child and wife and the child is then put in harms way of a bullet. Will the legislature care then? Probably not. So now it’s time to stop kissing their asses and overdoing it with the professionalism and start telling it like it is right. to. their. faces.
Here’s the link: http://news.legislature.ne.gov/dist20/files/2013/08/NE_sex_offender_recidivism.pdf. I couldn’t find it earlier but after snooping around I found it.
Should I be surprised that the gist of the story was about the registry being detrimental in its public form yet fox news made it a point to include the man’s convictions?
No. I am not.
This is further proof that the public not only gets no benefit from the Registry but cannot be trusted with sensitive information of Registrants. Misusing this information has been documented over the years from scams, employment loss, harassments, and more violent deaths.
James Fairbanks would not have become a murderer if he didn’t have access to Mattieo’s sensitive information. Furthermore Fairbanks has stopped nothing to prevent future sexual assaults which is perpetrated by 95% first time offenders NOT on the Registry.
The outcome has not changed. Just another tragedy on top of a heap of failures and lies fraught by the Registry.
The place that I’ve called home for most of my life needs a quick reality check. Nebraska’s Registry is a dismal failure. Back around 2013 the Nebraska legislators asked for a study on the registry from the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Surprise, surprise the study revealed everything that experts warned about and could comprehend: it doesn’t work!! Nebraska legislators have blood on their hands. Now is the time for them to grow a set and a spine by doing the right thing. Standing up for all Nebraskans constitutional rights including those on the registry and their families. Allow healing for both the victim( if there was one) and the person that committed a crime resulting in safer communities!!
Brandon – can you dig up a copy of that study and share it?
Yes I can just give me time to reach out to her regarding the study. I know she did a 3 part series on registered citizens with Ketv7 news back in 2017 that I found on the web. Hopefully she’ll get back to me soon. I had to do something because this hits close to home and wrong on so many levels; so why not use my connections that I have in Omaha and the state of Nebraska to my advantage.
Don’t expect LE to respond. They know they are in the wrong and if they were not afraid to speak the truth they would confirm that a public registry is a waste of manpower and money…but then it takes courage to admit that.