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Texas Voices profiled; broad sex offender registry criticized

Doc Berman points to an article ("Texas group fights sex crime's stigma," Dec. 14) by the Houston Chronicle's Lisa Sandberg about the group Texas Voices, made up of sex offenders, their families, and others who believe thatcommunity notification laws fail to protect the public, because they don't distinguish dangerous predators from otherwise harmless men and women who foolishly had sex with underage lovers, served their sentences and don't need a lifetime of public scrutiny. ...Texas Voices is finding agreement in unusual places. Ray Allen, the former Texas House Corrections chair who helped shepherd into law tough sex registration bills, said he and his colleagues went too far. "We cast the net widely to make sure we got all the sex offenders...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).