Blue Byline » sex offender registration http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline A cop's perspective of the news and South Sound matters Mon, 20 May 2013 05:57:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Systemic problems in sex offender registration and oversight http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/03/18/systemic-problems-in-sex-offender-registration-and-oversight/ http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/2012/03/18/systemic-problems-in-sex-offender-registration-and-oversight/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:32:19 +0000 Brian O'Neill http://blog.thenewstribune.com/bluebyline/?p=1475

2nd in a series on sex offenders.

A few years back I signed up to coach my son’s little league team. Not so fast, I was told; first fill out the mandatory criminal background check. My thoughts were on pitching skills, practice times and getting parent volunteers, but first the league needed to know I was not a sex offender.

Many people take exception to the huge amount of bureaucracy and privacy issues that has insinuated its way into our lives, courtesy of sex offender legislation. I had a different perspective, partly based on my experiences investigating sex crimes and …

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