Belize launches Sex Offender registry
The Central American country of Belize has launched its sex offender registry last week.
Unlike the United States (and like most countries) the registry is non-public. Concerned citizens would be required to complete a questionnaire/application form, and if approved, the authorized individuals would then be granted a password to access the system.
According to this article in the San Pedro Sun, “most of the information about sex offenders is confidential nature, those granted access would be expected to treat the information in a responsible manner, and to widely publicize data on individuals which could lead to mass community hysteria, and result in unwarranted attacks against the registered offenders by parents concerned about the safety of their children. The object is to prevent crime, not to provoke more crime inadvertently.”
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Even Central America can exercise common sense. Hear that Florida…and most of the USA!
I wonder if that means that we will no longer be able to travel/move to that country? I am planning on visiting again with the purpose of buying a property next year.
Same here had my sights on the country but a simple trip to florida killed me
Agreed. My wife and I went there last year and really enjoyed the trip. I figured that was my go to place since all the other Central American countries are now off limits.
Please keep us posted if you find out if they are now denying us entry.
Exactly what it will translate into!
Oh well. There is always Thailand
Another United States in the making!!!
I disagree. Belize can’t possibly be as stupid as the law makers and keepers are in America.. I love my country and what it used to be but it’s all but dead now.. I’ll abandon it as easily as my ex-wife did me12 years ago.
Never underestimate the amount of stupidity or corruption available in the human mind..every time you do someone will take it as a challenge..
This country is corrupt
I would love to get a pass to just leave. When you find the way. lets talk. I am interested.
Correct we should leave if we want to move to another country. I would love to get out of this country because of the laws are not right. The constitution says when your time is up there was no further persecution for your crime. So what is the sex offender registry other than further persecution. I will leave this country And never look back, will retire overseas somewhere nice. I love this country but not Willing to stay here and be persecuted.
I agree, only thing it does it makes things harder for us. As is I get notices I open new accounts around the world with all my info,which is available to the world,mailbox gets shot,beat with objects. Unsolicited mail,emails and phone calls, because it’s all public. And favorite of all is open discrimination at employer and denied pay increase for the past 4 years while everyone else gets them and paid better, employer ignored by safety which caused a life long injury. Yea the usa is doing real great with the registry and entrapment. Yay us all.
How do you thank a third world country for showing more incite in making knowledgeable decisions based on facts when a first world country takes the lead in making decisions based on hysteria and biased ignorance.. thank you FAC
Also did you notice they did there research before they started the registry not afterward like in the US. And noted that .07% of crimes were sex related and 40 % of those involved minors where they live and by a relative. Facts not stranger danger hysteria that the US trumped up with no facts to back it up. And they only were concerned with rape and molestation not urinating on the side of the road or spanking your kids or every stretch of the imagination and calling it a sex crime and destroying families. I don’t think Belize will go down that road because they don’t have all the money in the world to burn like the US.
While laudably it is claiming to be private, that to is how the American registry’s started.. It is a Pandora box.. When you let a politician get an inch they will eventually take a mile. When they learn how many times they can cover their own wrong doings and how many votes they can garner they will start piling the corruption..When they learn how much money they can launder like America they will never stop…
Yes, America did start their registry as non-public. I was in real estate then and we talked about that very thing. People could check at the police station and ask though…if they were home buyers.
yea evil may start out small but it never ends small..best to not go that road to start with.. its like an infection if allowed to take root it soon becomes a gangrene and infects the entire organism… look at the American justice system..It is so corrupted and infected it would literally require a complete restructuring of impossible proportions to make it resemble a justice system again… It would be simpler to completely erase the entire American fake system and start over then to try and fix it at this point.. its toast. Nothing can save the American un-justice system. it is that malignant.
Yes I agree the system has failed. When you pass to lie to tactor test then you asked for 12 jurors and they refuse and they give you only six jars that have been stacked you have no way of winning and you’re forced into a play. So there’s no way to win with these laws here in America. They are very unjust!