If you knew that a convicted burglar was living a few doors away, would you go to work each day and leave your door unlocked?
Do you park in town, cell phone on the front seat, cd's in plain view and leave the car doors unlocked, keys hanging from the ignition?
I was cautious before having any specific knowledge-don't answer the door or phone if I'm not there, etc. The 'system' of registration isn't perfect, nothing is. But it's obviously not perfect in either direction. The object of the OP is not an 'unknown' in terms of why he's supposed to register; to make assumptions that he was just a misunderstood youth could be a lot more detrimental than taking the information at face value. Your unlocked house may never be robbed, your unlocked car never stolen-if you want to play the game of chance, I can think of better ways to do it than with kids, though.
There are some that only go on witch hunts, wanting their neighborhoods to be some sort of heaven on earth and creating more of what would resemble the mob scene in Frankenstein than anything remotely resembling common sense and cautionary action.
Megan's Law failed both ways here. The sites linked throughout the thread are needed because of the failures and shortcomings and they are emphatic about their usage. We became aware of a 'possible' danger, not thinking there is a 100% chance of it. We took steps to further lower the odds by informing the Board of Ed and having the bus stop moved to our own street(which, really, should have been done in the beginning, regardless-the bus passes right by here anyway!) Yea, that's a witch hunt...
