Comments on: Private equity firm invests in sex offender registration

By: Joseph Pratt

Joseph Pratt — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 19:05:00 +0000

According to Death Penalty Action and Death Penalty Focus Webinars/Zoom Meetings that I attended this month of October. STG Allegro/STG Partners also have financially invested into lethal injection drugs to contribute to the executions for those on death row in States that still administer capital punishment for those convicted of capital homicide, as well. Death Penalty Action https://deathpenaltyaction.org/ and Death Penalty Focus https://deathpenalty.org/ are capital punishment abolition advocates.

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 15:42:33 +0000

In reply to OffenderWatch Watch. I'm open to any ideas.

By: CherokeeJack

CherokeeJack — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:57:18 +0000

Maybe that is why some registrants have to “Pay to register”? Are they making money and profiting off of our misfortunes? That is as bad as a lady who was fired for betting with other employees on which elderly person would die next.

By: TS

TS — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 20:07:14 +0000

In reply to FAC Contributor #12.

Yes, I am aware. “STG’s investor base includes several police and public safety pension funds…” (from the press release). Those are some of it’s investors of the fund, but it’s more than just those two the you mention as I noted above with the one recent example. PE needs multiple investors to make the fund work so they can provide a return. Again, find out who are investing into the company and the fund to inform them of the poor choice they are making. You asked to combat it, so one avenue was provided.

By: FAC Contributor #12

FAC Contributor #12 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 19:28:25 +0000

In reply to Ben. Attracting equity investment is not necessarily a result of failure.

By: FAC Contributor #12

FAC Contributor #12 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:40:56 +0000

In reply to TS. The investor is STG Allegro on behalf of police and public safety pension funds.

By: TS

TS — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 17:44:55 +0000

This can be combated by looking into who invests in these funds and then reaching out to them to inform them they will be benefiting from those who are investing into the funds who are investing into these companies for gain and how it is bad business.

The employees represented can be caught up possibly into what OW does and thus, the fund will lose an investor into the fund when the employee can no longer invest. Enough investors lost, the fund loses value. They are going to shoot themselves in the foot. You can also reach out to the those who work at the PE company and inform them of the same.

For example, there is a a public employee retirement system (Idaho) fund that is investing into the above account (22 Sep 2025 article online) this PE company is using to invest in to OW. It is all public info when one looks at the PE firm’s investments.

By looking for investors, they are finding they are tapping out the market with buyers and need make a better product to enhance the users experience so they will upgrade and possibly sell more copies. The more the foreign market continues to institute registries, the more the opps are opened to sell their SW.

All the info is public and out there to start an info campaign to inform they are the poor investment they are making.

By: DVC

DVC — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 16:05:43 +0000

A lot of people don’t know that there are many stock companies that you can buy stock to invest in ‘prison and law enforcement’ (such as NICE, CoreCivic Inc.,etc.) that are part of NASDAQ, or NYSE, so this is actually nothing new but another twist on previous investment opportunities through the penal system.
There are also States that have built (and later shutdown) prisons created to bring revenue for the economy which they thought were going to be the ‘State saviors’.
More laws were made and penalties were stiffened to fill them up and then the government stepped in and basically said ‘We are not going to continue to fund all these prsions! You built them, you fund them!’ So, I wouldn’t put too much shoe leather (pacing back and forth) into this.
It might-and that is a big might-sound like a somewhat lucrative investment, but magazines like ‘Busted’ and others thought the same and they went under.
Offender Search will always be there and it may even expand somewhat, but don’t count on heavy hitter investors taking stock in it.

By: FAC-3

FAC-3 — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:16:47 +0000

In reply to JAKE FROM STATE FARM.

Where do you see this?

You can request a copy of the contract through a Public Information Act request:

FDLE-009-23
Watch Systems, LLC
Support and maintenance for the Florida Offender Alert System (FOAS)
Single Source
Term: 1/9/2023-1/8/2026
$ 175,099.48

By: JAKE FROM STATE FARM

JAKE FROM STATE FARM — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:12:15 +0000

so basically its similar to private prisons like CCA where they put a contract clause that mandates that the state maintain a percentage of incarcerated or the company is paid double its contract rates or something to that effect, etc