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| OpEd: Online list needs review |
| By Morning Sentinel |
| Published: 07/07/2008 |
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MAINE - The state’s elected officials are right to ask the Department of Corrections to slow down on its plan to publish an online list of all state prison inmates and probationers. The department was scheduled to publish the list of approximately 10,000 names in about two months. Many states already maintain such a list as an aide to police and also for the benefit of crime victims who want to know the status of a person convicted in their case. That seems like a reasonable idea and one — in concept only — that we support. This is already public information, if you have the time and know-how to get it. But many people don’t and an online, searchable site would be a convenient way for police and the public to find out what they already have a right — and often a need — to know. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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