Sex Offender iPhone Applications Address Legal Constraints

[GoCubsGo]

Not every sex offender is child molester or rapist or some other kind of sick person.

You can be on the list if you had sex with your 15 years old girlfriend while you were 15 as well.


Here is a good and very recent article on Economist.

http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14164614&source=most_commented

This is true. However, I can also say if you're 18 and you have sex with your 16 year old g/f or vice versa, then if the parents wish to charge you with "rape" then you will certainly be a registered sex offender.

 

[bstpierre]

What about computers and web browsers?

Does that mean in California you can't sell computers and/or web browsers if they are able to access the registries?

 

[chameleon81]

As a paper carrier, I actually use this app, and it has come in handy. The paper I deliver doesn't usually do checks without me asking, so I take it upon myself - and one of my ex-customers was, in fact, a child molester.
You can never be too careful. They've done horrendous acts, and in my opinion, the point of being on this list isn't to destroy the privacy, it's to protect the children around them. Use it to make sure that house your looking forward to buying doesn't have a sicko living next to it.

As discussed not everyone on that list is a sicko.

According the article I posted in 1996 even oral sex was barred in Georgia. ( probably in public places. )

I do not support having those kind actions in public and find it disrespectful to community but those people should not be in the same list with rapers and child molesters .

 

[MacVixen]

Does that mean in California you can't sell computers and/or web browsers if they are able to access the registries?

No......

It just means you can't *sell* the information. The registry is free for anyone to look at - California law prevents a company from mining that information and selling it for profit.

 

[Ericatomars]

yeah i see millions of people walking into poles and such to stay up to date on their sex offender where abouts.. such a joke... and most sex offenders dont keep up their registations so not only do you have wrong information but you wasted your money. if your turely that paranoid then lock your self and the kids in the house...

 

[Zimmer62943]

As a paper carrier, I actually use this app, and it has come in handy. The paper I deliver doesn't usually do checks without me asking, so I take it upon myself - and one of my ex-customers was, in fact, a child molester.
You can never be too careful. They've done horrendous acts, and in my opinion, the point of being on this list isn't to destroy the privacy, it's to protect the children around them. Use it to make sure that house your looking forward to buying doesn't have a sicko living next to it.

So what are u saying, u use this so can not deliver thier papers? or do you look on your phone, see they are on the list and then throw thier paper in the tree?