Canada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a national, publicly accessible High-Risk Child Sex Offender Database
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a national, publicly accessible High-Risk Child Sex Offender Database, the first of its kind in Canada, to centralize information on individuals who have been convicted of sexual offenses against children and are assessed as posing a high risk of committing further sexual crimes.
This database, created under the High Risk Child Sex Offender Database Act, includes only information that has already been made public by police or other authorities and is intended to help inform and protect communities as well as support law enforcement in investigating and preventing child sexual offenses. Provincial, territorial and municipal authorities determine who is considered high risk and recommend offenders for inclusion, and the RCMP administers and regularly reviews the information to ensure accuracy.
The database is separate from the National Sex Offender Registry, which remains accessible only to law enforcement.
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No registries is the end goal; however, this move by RCMP is a step in the right direction – only those deemed high risk should be listed (yes, the debate over who’s high risk will continue indeterminably.) I am against all public registries and in favor of law enforcement access only registries.
This is exactly what the US registry was suppposed to be, but look at it now. You can’t trust any public registry to stay “high-risk only.”
Think about how we here in the states have expanded what defines a “violent” offense. Most, if not all, sexual offenses are treated as “volent” offenses even where there is no violence.
Here’s another example of the problem with how folks inflate the danger to justify expanding the registry. Here’s a 2021 Iowa State study that I found dubious to say the least:
https://soc-cj.iastate.edu/2021/03/24/delisi-study-finds-sexual-offenders-commit-more-crimes-than-their-record-shows/
This line really sticks out to me:
“Their latest study comprised 216 federal offenders who were on supervised release between 2016 and 2020. Of the 216, 109 (50.5%) had an official arrest charge for a sexual contact offense and 107 (49.5%) did not. The top three most common offenses of this group included possession or receipt of child pornography, noncompliance with the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act and distribution of child pornography.”
Here he’s considering both CP offenses and Failure To Register (FTR) as “sexual contact offenses.” I don’t believe this is just poor wording, I think it is intentionally misleading the public.
No doubt this so-called “study” has been used by victim advocates to push for expanding the registry.
I always thought a liberal country like Canada would have sympathy for what people on the registry go through
I guess if there is money to be made by keeping us down then keep us down they will
Another FAC post, with zero evidence, that the registry is a profit center. Someone please explain how money is “made” via the registry.
Nemo, were you under the impression that the registry software is developed by volunteers? Or that the registry laws are administered and enforced by volunteers?
Bless your heart. Money is made by OffenderWatch LLC, by sheriff employees who clock time using OffenderWatch products, and by multi-agency officers receiving overtime pay to conduct compliance operations. Among others.