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Grits For Breakfast Responds To Texas Registry Change

By Corey Rayburnyung

Grits For Breakfast via Pegasus News has a response to a story which we previously discussed about the State of Texas posting the employers of sex offenders, along with other information.  From the post: This is a foolish move by the [Texas] Department of Public Safety, and one taken on the agency's own initiative, not because of any legislation directing them to do so. This decision by DPS makes it more likely sex offenders will not be able to successfully rehabilitate and successfully make their way in society when their sentence is complete. From the beginning, when a later-exonerated man was pilloried in the Ashley Estell case as the prime example justifying the bill, Texas' sex offender registry has been based on faulty premises...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on October 03, 2008 (boomark / email).