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Dyfed-Powys Police fined for publicising pervs' particulars

tiggity Silver badge

not publically available in the UK

Lets think of some sensible reasons for the offenders names to be kept secret.

People can be on the offenders register for reasons that most people would not regard as particularly vile.

e.g. In UK, most public toilets now closed, if someone is "caught short" & urinates in public (as no toilets available) then possible to be convicted of indecent exposure and go on the offenders register, even if happens at night, when dark & person trying to hide as much as possible e.g. not spraying in the middle of the town square but in a quiet corner.

With sexting & similar digital image transfer activities prevalent amongst kids, lots of kids ending on register for sending pics of their (underage schoolkid) unclothed self to their (underage schoolkid) boyfriend / girlfriend.

And of course, potentially dubious convictions can easily happen. I'm sure many readers of an IT site would be able to think of ways in which it's easy to plant images on someones computer, add short lived self killing after a while trojan that makes unnoticed internet calls to dubious sites etc.

Even if, magically, the offenders list was 100% full of people who were guilty of vile crimes (lets not even get onto questions of how many likely to re-offend, probably less than 100%), would you really want to publicise it and risk vigilantism / mob "justice"? The criminal justice system may be flawed, but it's part of the social contract as citizens that if someone has served their time then they get released (unless they are deemed unsuitable for release for various reasons)

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