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I'm opposed to registration for two reasons:
1) most sex offenses are committed against people who know each other; that is, in the same family.
Registration doesn't make one's niece or nephew or grandchild or child any more safe from the non-anonymous molester, but it sure makes it tough for the family to move on and try and heal or avoid consequences from the general public.
2) if you lump all of the rapists, pedophiles, and acquantance rapists (stat, date rape, etc) together, that doesn't allow those of us who want to use the database to do so effectively. How do we know who is dangerous or not? You can have not enough information or too much information that it makes it impossible to find pertinent data--both are effectively useless.
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