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Oh dear, this database is just wrong.
Firstly, if people have done their time they deserve the chance to make a fresh start in life - they'll never get this if every nosy neighbour is digging up dirt.
Secondly, after a criminal has served their sentence, they are entitled to all the rights to privacy that we are.
And finally, given that people generally aren't abused by random strangers but by relatives/close friends (the link given in the OP quotes 90% fall into this category) it's all a bit pointless anyway.
I'll second JrKASperov and suggest that this is a return to mob rule and witch burnings. Too much information is dangerous in the hands of the wrong sort of people.
Besides, what are you going to do? There'll always be some offenders in every neighbourhod. Would you move away yourself? Hound the person out of town? Presumably, if that picture is repeated across the States then there'll be an endless chain of migrating offenders being chased from one town to the next.
Utterly pointless.
[ 09-23-2006, 07:45 PM: Message edited by: shamrock_uk ]
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