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[US] Georgia Web site publishes parolee details

  • 20-03-2003 10:24am
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    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭


    Georgia Web site publishes parolee details: Parole Board officials in Georgia have launched an on-line database that allows residents of the state to obtain information on parolees in their neighbourhoods. Accessible via the Board of Pardons and Paroles Web site, the database of 22,000 parolees is searchable by zip code, parolee name and prison ID number. Information available on parolees includes a physical description, home address, start date and end date of parole term and the person's "primary offence". Photographs of parolees are also supplied and, if the parolee has absconded from supervision, the site tags their record with a "Wanted" sign and provides the parole office phone number. The database was established as a result of Senator Eric Johnson's Senate Bill 23, nicknamed the "Know Thy Neighbour Act". Johnson says the bill was "purely in the interest of public safety" and that the Web site will "allow citizens to have an 'electronic neighbourhood watch'".
    You lose rights when you commit a crime, and privacy is generally seen as a less important right. However, isn't parole close to the end of the rehabilitation process? Should criminals be /allowed/ out of jail if they can't be trusted?

    adam


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  • #2
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,574 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    This would make me worry for the safety of parolees (vengence attacks, vigilantees, ex-"associates", ex-shower "friends") and would provide an ideal method for setting up heists, its like dial-a-crook. :rolleyes:


  • #3
    dahamsta
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,659 ✭✭✭✭dahamsta


    its like dial-a-crook

    Drug gang? Out the door, line on the left, one AK47 each.

    adam


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    daveirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,483 ✭✭✭✭daveirl


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  • #5
    Victor
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 78,574 ✭✭✭✭Victor


    Originally posted by Victor
    its like dial-a-crook.
    30303 is the ZIP code for the Georgia Attorney General.
    Originally posted by daveirl
    I don't think things are like that here really. In the US you lose the right to votes for life AFAIK
    I think it is a state by state thing and applies to felonies (serious crimes).
    Originally posted by daveirl
    at worst here it is only while you are in prison you can't vote.
    Actually the Supreme Court said last year that should (as opposed to must) be given voting rights (this would probably be on a postal basis given that mountjoy is in Ahean constituency). The particular case failed as it was made too close to the election.


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