Comments on: The Sex Offender Registry is Big Business for Private Industry and Politicians

By: FactsShouldMatter

FactsShouldMatter — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:50:52 +0000

“Florida didn’t just adopt this system, it perfected it”

Even worse, Florida is usually the “test bed” for nefarious initiatives that other states eventually adopt. The registry is just predatory capitalism underneath the thin veneer of the “public safety” lie.

By: Allen W.

Allen W. — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:58:21 +0000

Mastery would imply they’re perfect. This amount of money explains why they continue to post misinformation about my past.

By: Michael J. Citro

Michael J. Citro — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:56:43 +0000

absolutely shameful…….like most things in this country just follow the money. And that’s what’s wrong with us, as a nation.

By: Maria Hintzen

Maria Hintzen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:46:13 +0000

It is true,it is a big business for them,but cruel for all the people that have to be in the register .

By: James

James — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 12:01:20 +0000

In reply to Brian W Jansen. It is unethical however it doesn't violate the law. It falls under the First Amendment for the company. That being said if they divulge information that is not available to the public they would be violating the law.

By: Crazy88

Crazy88 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:56:30 +0000

I will say in colorado as tier 1 I did not show up on Any application and still registered yearly. There they so do not sell your information or disclose most crimes blantely. Meaning if you rob a bank yeah be in news all that but someone like take candy bar never hace mugshot published for profit. Its sad. But Colorado its verify will not be on offender watch. I actually was able to use vacation rentals applications and they knew. And finding child care I was allowed on with notification on app. Like I said pretty much forgot I was on the registry. Do the yearly court reporter in person check in, that officer to house or residence once a year. Transient is just reporting once a month usually calling the officer to make sure contact is made. No felonies unless knowingly key trying to evade it.

By: Brian W Jansen

Brian W Jansen — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:01:41 +0000

Wouldn’t some of the company’s actions violate the law? Specifically I’m thinking of their public notification via mail. If I recall the state of Ohio doesn’t send flyers through the mail for its lowest tier. I would think that the co.pany would be in violation of that if it sent notification. Even if law enforcement pays for the service it seems unethical. I apologize for the confusion, because I certainly am.

By: Robert Curtis

Robert Curtis — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:06:18 +0000

As a US Military veteran I am heart broken how the ideals of my youth have been shattered.

By: Quiet too long

Quiet too long — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:07:53 +0000

What made the system even more durable was the way money flowed around it. Even when private companies operated the registry infrastructure, the government still benefited indirectly. If a company was tax‑exempt, the state collected revenue through payroll taxes from its employees, sales taxes from their purchases, and corporate taxes from affiliated for‑profit partners. If a company was for‑profit, the state collected even more. Every expansion of the registry — every new rule, every new monitoring requirement, every new compliance mandate — meant more contracts, more employees, more taxable activity. The registry economy became a revenue ecosystem: public agencies paid private vendors; private vendors paid taxes; employees spent wages; and the cycle repeated. Meanwhile, incarceration for technical violations cost taxpayers millions, but it also justified larger budgets for corrections departments and more funding for the contractors who supplied monitoring equipment, software, and facility operations. The financial incentives did not create the registry, but once the system existed, those incentives made it easier for lawmakers to expand it and harder for anyone to unwind it. A civil system that was supposed to cost little and protect much had quietly become a revenue‑generating machine — one whose economic gravity reinforced the very caste‑like structure the law had never intended to create.

By: TS

TS — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 20:54:58 +0000

In reply to Ben. #tootrue If it is the govt's law, then, yes, the govt needs to be implementing it from top to bottom, not by contract.