Are YOU a Sex Offender? Watch Out!
Frighteningly?
What could possibly be scary about any law aimed at protecting our children from predators? Well, maybe if even one of them was proven to WORK…
But I started this piece with a question. Are YOU one of those evil monsters? Let’s take a little quiz. Answer yes or no.
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Justice Department Announces $7.3 Million in Awards,
In support of the Adam Walsh Act and Sex Offender Management
We do not think we have seen anything quite like this before. Legislators have been successful in taking a minute problem and turning it into a monumental one. All they needed was media assistance and a very gullible public to accomplish their goals.
We could do a lot of good with $7.3 million, but it seems that nothing is more important than funding laws that do not work and were not need in the first place.
But is $7.3 million enough to fully fund the AWA or is it a carrot for lawmakers who cannot do the math?
This breaks down to (.0146).146 million per state? If you do straight math, which the government never does, $7,300,000 / 50= $146,000. This is not including, D.C. and all of the territories, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, Marianas Islands, Guam, Samoa.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The U.S. Department of
Justice’s (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs (OJP) today announced more than $7.3 million in Fiscal Year 2009 grant assistance for state, local, and tribal governments for use in implementing, training, and maintaining and enhancing sex offender programs throughout the United States.
These grants, administered by OJP’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing,
Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART), break down into three areas of funding: Adam Walsh Act (Title I) implementation, Comprehensive Approaches to Sex Offender Management (CASOM) support, and Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public