Cuyahoga deputies short-handed as they check on sex offenders
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/post_127.html
Thank you for posting that article. They really do need to change the laws so that they are spending more time notifying the people in the neighborhoods about child molesters, rapists, and only people who are repeat offenders of statutory rape. While there are people who do repeatedly go after underage girls the majority of them are people who at 18 or 19 years old had a girlfriend that was 15 or 16. I personally know someone that at the age of 18 had a 15 year old girlfriend and was charged with that crime. Was it a poor choice? Yes, I think that it was. Should it have resulted in years of being in prison, being a RSO, and ruining his entire life? Some say yes but personally I don't believe it should have. I think they really need to change the laws. I think the penalties for the crime I just mentioned are too stiff while child molesters get off easy.
As far as the police only being able to check on about 10 sex offenders a day... that's just ridiculous with the amount of offenders in that area! They either need to put more officers on the job or even better why not let some regular citizens with no criminal background volunteer to verify addresses every other time a RSO needs to be checked on? I'm sure they can find plenty of volunteers who care enough to want to do it. I don't think verifying an address is too dangerous as long as some caution and common sense is used.