Given the mileage online commentators got out of ‘unvetted males of military age’, it is terrifying to think where this might end up
Jim O’Callaghan would, on the face of it, appear to be looking for something along the lines of 'Megan’s Law' in the US, which allows direct and uncontrolled access to information on sex offenders. Photograph: Alan Betsonof a publicly accessible database of sex offenders. In the middle of an otherwise uneventful Dáil debate on Wednesday about gender-based violence,It was clear he wanted it to be public.
If he is anyway serious about his idea – from which he has not, as yet, walked back – the next step will no doubt be some sort of review group. The Minster could save himself some time and the taxpayer some money by reading the various reports produced by the UK home office that led to the introduction of what is called “Sarah’s Law”, which allows limited access to a register of sex offenders.
A similar incremental approach would probably fly here but the experience in the UK was that take-up by the public was less than anticipated, which is indicative of the gap that often exists between reality and the populist noise about this sort of issue. They also found no evidence of serious breaches of confidentially, and the police reported that it had led to sharpening up procedures in the area.
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