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Originally Posted by ngdawg
One thing also that I noticed about the registry-the years of the offenses are given, but not the time served, whether he's paroled or on probation, etc. You get aliases, address, tier rating and the crime(s)
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You should be able to go to your states DOC site and do a prisoner lookup which will tell you parole status. You could probably also go to the courthouse closest to you and check the system I told you about earlier and it should have that information.
Also, the registry in NC gives the time sentenced, time served, time released and current address.
Right now NC has the 10 year registry but they've just recently made it to where you cannot get off of the registry unless you petition the Superior Court (in your county of course) for a motion to be removed. You can file this petition as many times as you like. While I don't really like this idea , in theory, it could help keep a better track of those who would most likely re-offend. By going in front of a judge after 10 years, you can look at the track record of the person and of course the Probation/Parole officers as well as Mental Councelors would have to give you a good report for the judge to remove you from the list.
One thing they haven't done is make sex offenders place those words onto their drivers license's yet. I hope they don't. That's just way over the top to me. Wisconsin does this but they have an extremely high number of sex offenders. IIRC, Ohio makes you have a pink license plate if you are a sex offender. I don't see what good this possibly does as it can only increase vigilante justice. The argument is it's easier to tell if a sex offender is where he shouldn't be. Umm wrong, it's not hard to put a different plate on the car or just drive a different car.