Tennessee registry gets online overhaul of data
The overhauled registry in Tennessee was launched this week, posting where registrants work along with their driver’s license number. We are told that people convicted of a sexual offense “have a reduced expectation of privacy because of the public’s interest in public safety.”
If the Tennessee General Assembly and the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation really cared about public safety, they would be using research-based policies. With this overhauled registry, they are only protecting the public/children from 10% or less of future perpetrators.
Tennessee is a reactive state rather than a proactive one.
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According to the site, the registry “exists as a public information resource allowing citizens to take proactive measures to ensure the safety in their communities.”
And after all these years, still not one single word about what these “proactive measures” are supposed to be undertaken by the public, but still (supposedly) not to harass, stalk, assault or kill. Would someone in authority PLEASE answer that question?
If they’re going to post people’s personal information due to “public safety” then they need to star posting EVERYONE who has ever had a traffic ticket, jaywalking, shoplifting, DUI, robbery, murder, etc. Fair is fair. And with all the identity theft going on, it sure is smart to post someone’s driver license number online.
Get a brain.
It’s not for public safety. It is for harassment, to give people “jobs’, make people money, and to placate dumb people.
i moved to TN a couple of years ago, over all, way better than FL. I check in once a year, always with the same guy, no one bothers me here. as far as Hopefuls comment, yes your children can live with you, but no one else under 18 can spend the night under the same roof.
I am not happy about the DL info and worry about identify theft.
all in all, happy i moved out of FL
I’m pretty sure the DL info was already posted before this update to the website. But it was listed on a secondary page under the vehicle identification page. Just like the employer info was listed prior also but on a separate page but it was not included as a location search tag.
So do you get off the registry after 5 years in Tennessee or 10 years after your sanctions ended (whichever is longer) or did they figure out a way to make you a lifetime registrant? What bothered me about Tennessee is that 5 year thing which includes STATE housing restrictions and the internet identifier thing. The listing of your workplace may be the worst part of these new rules. Now people can call your employer and insist that they fire you.
Sounds like the same crap to me. This sounds like a step backwards to me.
Of course it is. Do you actually think they’re gonna take their foot off the gas with any of this nonsense? Ha. Fear, disgust and hate is keeping this whole thing propped up and they’re gonna keep milking that heifer ’til she falls over.
If they and the public really care about safety, than all criminals would be on a matching registry similar to ours.
The TN politicians do not care about safety; they care about doing some easy to push over laws/restrictions that make ignorant on the subject TN voters think their representatives care about them and are doing something positive…and of course, justify the politician’s pay check.
Perhaps they know the Oppression Lists (OLs) are idiotic and worse than worthless? They only want to harass for SEX!!!
One thing that is crystal clear though is that the OLs are not for public safety, protecting children, or any of their other lies. They are immoral liars.
They can and will do what they want… until they are told no by an administrative authority.