Saturday, December 18, 2010

Upside to a Down Economy




Per Corey Rayburn Yung, associate professor at the John Marshall Law School in Chicago, the economy has kept many states from fully complying with the Adam Walsh Act.

The commentary was offered in response to a viewpoint shared by John Walsh regarding the continued need for public notification efforts currently utilized to inform the community of the residences of those designated as sex offenders.

Notification of the legal sort apparently led to the death of David Morrison of Nevada. A contact card left by a detective at Morrison's home is suspected to have been the motive for his murder by his roommates.

An arrest has been made in the case.

The Nevada Sex Offender Registry provides notification of Tier One"low risk" offenders to "... persons authorized to receive criminal history record information. Typically, this includes law enforcement, prosecutors and courts."

Meaning, the law protects the privacy of Tier One offenders, allowing them to resume some semblance of an ordinary life.

A search on Morrison resulted in the following:

"A search of the Statewide Registry has not produced any information that is available to the public through the Statewide Registry."

Presumably, Morrison was considered low risk or as now deceased, is no longer listed on the registry, which is not the case here in Florida. (Deceased, living under a bridge, incarcerated, it's all public record here in the Sunshine State).

Either way, sloppy procedures and the continued poor education of the public as to how easily an individual can be designated a sex offender contributed to Morrison's death.

David Morrison was thirty years old.

4 comments:

Vox Populi said...

Good one, Ms. Sunny. And very sad. This is how you know the difference. These young guys and others like him but older being murdered or murdered and shoved from cars (never to be investigated never to be heard of past the article in the paper) but the truly disgusting ones such as Shelley John Golden who had sex with his child lives more free than your family member EVER did on probation. Never once seen an officer anywhere around him. Tried to call and report him to the FDLE for some crap he did and never could get through. But this young man is dead. Mr. Golden also had sex with some young girls (VERY YOUNG) unrelated to him and his wife and he are together. She is the long-skirt Christian type and he and his son are very involved in trafficking and intimidation along with the local firefighters some of whom are related to it (as newly discovered)
One surmises this is why Mr.(s) Golden slither about unmolested. Pun intended.

Vox Populi said...

OMG. Las Vegas is a TERRIBLE PLACE. I feel dirty after reading that one newspaper page. Except the black dude with lights in his hair .. that was pretty funny.

Sunny said...

No matter how rough life gets, uou always make me smile.

Happy Holidays, Voxy!

Anonymous said...

uou=you :)