Las Vegas police partner with smartphone app to show sex offenders in neighborhoods ahead of Halloween
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has partnered with an app that show residents where sex offenders live in their neighborhoods ahead of Halloween.
The free app called Offender Watch says on its website that it allows parents to “track your children, map offenders nearby, get alerts if your child is contacted or lingers near an offender’s residence, safety tips, and more.”
LVMPD partnered with the app so users can “view the locations of registered sex offenders’ home addresses within” the department’s jurisdiction.
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Maybe I’m wrong, but I can’t find any Nevada law prohibiting PFR’s from handing out candy at Halloween.
This app, and it’s partnering with LVPD, obviously seeks to engage in the act of preventing people from trick or treating at various locations. Does anyone disagree that this is the goal of LVPD?
If yes, then read this…
Nevada law NRS 179B.290 states:
If there is reasonable cause to believe that a person or group of persons has engaged in or is about to engage in any act or practice, or any pattern of acts or practices, which involves the use of information obtained from the community notification website and which violates any provision of this section, NRS 179B.250, 179B.270 or 179B.280, the Attorney General may file an action for injunctive relief in the appropriate district court to prevent the occurrence or continuance of that act or practice or pattern of acts or practices.
Well? Seems as though LVPD and offender watch are indeed using information to interfere with an activity that would otherwise be completely legal. Am I wrong in thinking this?
Bump
I think what you are saying could be true. Good points.
Yes, my friend, you are completely wrong on all fronts. Perhaps you’ve never been out on paper. I’m sure you can find the relative statutes. I had to place a “NO CANDY” sign. But hey, sue ’em, right? Also, you may want to bone up on Nevada’s Lifetime Supervision laws.
My PO was pretty annoyed that I wasn’t home a couple of times, but not because she wanted to do a check. She was annoyed because she has to chase down every SO on her roll and get them to sign a piece of paper!
BTW, no such thing as LVPD. There is a NLVPD. Fun Fact: LVMPD is a unique county-wide agency (except for NLV) run by the Clark County Sheriff.
Not sure where you are going with your last lawsuit there, it’s not illegal to reiterate public information. Good luck!
Stephen H
Yes it is called Compelled speech. One county in Florida already won on that basis with the Halloween signs. (Forgot which one as there are 1000s of posts on FAC)
Just depends on the judge you get. Funny how one judge will say something is perfectly legally and an appeals judge will say it is not. Did they not both pass law school? I once saw an article that said “That is why they call it Practicing law, they have no idea what they are doing”. Also, mind you, judges hand down “opinions”. When have you ever heard a judge use the word “I am handing down the facts?”.
There are 67 counties in Florida and there are 67 different sets of rules, laws and ordinances for things, and yet we as citizens are supposed to know and obey everyone of them. And the courts cover their hind ends by stating “Ignorance of the law is no excuse”. The law is basically saying what my good friend Willy Wonka use to say, “You get nothing! You lose! Good day, sir!”
You bet your ass it’s compelled. That’s what happens when you’re serving a sentence.
The rest of your reply has nothing to do with my post. So, I guess my only other question is if you are really friends with Willy Wonka?
I think Willy Wonka’s relatives may be running the registry and the reward sure as heck is not candy on Halloween. It seems to be compliance checks. I have never been told I cannot hand out candy but I choose not to anyway for obvious reasons.
Mig
You should know by now the government, law enforcement, some judges and law makers are known for speaking out of both sides of their mouths. It is also known as double speak. One thing that brings Democrats and Republicans together is their hate for anyone with a sex offense. And that is regardless of if their charge was 40 years ago.
How many websites and apps do people think they need? Is it not enough that there’s a registry maintained by state police? All these other websites and apps are needed too?
Ridiculous.
They are lazy. They do not want to have to look it up, they want to have it handed to them on a platter. The registry does not always give alerts. Nextdoor and related sites do.
Parents and kids can have the app ? So if a kid is looking for someone to extort or a house to vandalize they have all the info they need to make a credible accusation. And let’s not forget vigilantes got to make sure they have the info. It all needs to stop
Joker
That Is why I ALWAYS suggest regardless of if you can afford it or not, have security cameras that record and have sound. Our cameras have been used not only for accusations that were debunked, but also caught the kids who threw rocks at our house. Now those kids were told by the sheriff’s office if they are even caught on our street again they will be arrested.
The two deputies were actually awesome. They even came back down and let me know there would be no more problems from those two and I have never seen them since, even though I can see their house from my front window, on another street.
The kids denied it at first but I had let the deputies see the video before they went over there and one of them copied it on his phone. He said he gave them a chance to come clean and when they denied doing it, he handed his phone to the Mom to watch and she was pissed and embarassed.
Sadly I can no longer pay the bill on the camera but no one but me knows it is no longer active. Unless of course they read my comment and know who I am LOL
Is there an app where the potheads, drunks & junkies live? How about anyone charged with murder or accessory to a crime? This is freaking stupid!
Kathy
Supposedly in Florida there is a murderer registry, but it seems to not be public as far as I can tell.
Offender Watch has been profiting off the registry for years, including the Florida registry. A for-profit government contractor, Offender Watch actively promotes the registry’s purported benefits.
What’s next, supplying neighbors with molotov cocktails to throw at our houses? All these new things are doing is causing mass hysteria. I almost never hear of a story where a registered person did anything other than a failure to registry technicality, that to anyone else would not even be a crime.
They are fomenting a new type of Krystalnacht.
It is, again, government-sponsored hatred.