Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I wish to speak very briefly on an amendment the Senate will have an opportunity to vote on this afternoon. Due to the way the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act is currently written, there is a problem with tracking sex offenders convicted in a military justice system. Some of these offenders are exploiting the cracks in that system. My amendment is, quite honestly, a fix to the problem and will help authorities and the public better track sex offenders in our communities. To explain, currently, military sex offenders are only required to self-report to a State government after they are released from a military correctional facility. Under the civilian justice system, sex offenders are registered in the State before they are released. The State then provides the information to the Department of Justice to be included in both the public and the private National Sex Offender Registry, which is where the average citizen can go and see if there is a sex offender in their neighborhood. A Department of Defense inspector general report issued in August of last year revealed that an estimated 242 of the 1,312 released sex offenders failed to self-report. In that inspector general's report, they said: The lack of jurisdiction for DOD to register military sex offenders with the National Sex Offender Registry enables military sex offenders released from military prisons to evade sex offender registration requirements.…”