Ireland: Laws to protect sex offenders’ identities must be considered, says outgoing probation chief
Ireland should consider introducing privacy laws to protect the identities of sex offenders being released back into the community, the outgoing director of the Probation Service, Vivian Geiran, believes.
He said the service has dealt with several cases where a violent or sexual offender has been released into prearranged accommodation “but they’re identified at the point of their release”. “And they end up sleeping in a tent in a park or something. And the bottom line is they’re at a higher risk of offending if they’re not in a stable situation.”
An offender who is homeless is more at risk of committing more crimes, Mr Geiran said. “It’s very hard for us to engage someone on a programme to stop them offending when they don’t have a home. It’s very basic.”
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This type of thinking needs to be stoked from a single flame to wildfire. We need to push this narrative in a way that will overwhelm the current myths that is being shoved into America’s earhole repeatedly.
Wow. Some sensible words from an individual with firsthand experience of the process and its effects. Such rational talk won’t be tolerated here in the U.S. … he’d better stay in Ireland!
It’s saddening that this is the exact same train of thought/opinion that we hear from accredited researchers and academics here in the U.S. but yet states continue to enact increasingly more restrictive laws aimed at RSO’s…..
That’s because unlike the United States of Incarceration, other countries can actually make changes happen.
Well, experts never did support Registries. They have been proven they were so right.
Today, there aren’t any informed, sane, moral people in the U.S. who support Registries. Any sane, moral person who does support Registries knows very, very little about them. Once those people are informed, they drop their support ASAP.
The only “people” left that support Registries are the hateful crazies. You can’t be an informed, decent person and support the Registries.
Only corrupt, criminal regimes have $EX Offender Registries.
What a beautiful smart man for thinking 🤔 about us he should really run for the United state head of state 😆
Maybe common sense is finally starting to infiltrate the ‘defenders of society’. Why it has taken so long is my only question?
It is about time that people wake up and realize that the registry keeps nobody safe it only makes things worse.