This is a decent article; my chief complaint, however, is that it did not bring up the constant threat of abuse of registry information, in particular, vigilante violence. As many as 40% of registrants and about an equal number of loved ones of the registrants face property damage, harassment, assaults, and even murders by people whipped up into a frenzy over the sex offender list. Look up Stephen Marshall, the man who killed two Maine Registrants in 2006, for example (with a similar double homicide in Washington state). I've been a victim of vigilante violence as well.
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This is a decent article; my chief complaint, however, is that it did not bring up the constant threat of abuse of registry information, in particular, vigilante violence. As many as 40% of registrants and about an equal number of loved ones of the registrants face property damage, harassment, assaults, and even murders by people whipped up into a frenzy over the sex offender list. Look up Stephen Marshall, the man who killed two Maine Registrants in 2006, for example (with a similar double homicide in Washington state). I've been a victim of vigilante violence as well.