The registry is a disgrace.
Privately operated registries of public information is bound to catch on in other cash-hungry jurisdictions, as we've also seen with the commonwealth putting Asic's company database into contention.
This would by no means catch every sex offender since many crimes pre-date the registries or may not require registration (thus the necessity of full criminal history checks).
Declare that "something's going on with Muslims," put each of them on a national registry, and have the cops police their neighborhoods so we can catch those sneaky Arabs as they try to take us down.
Bart Hopkins, who is a buyer at 67 Wine (www.67wine.com), said that while his store has had a wedding registry for about three years, the notion has only recently caught on.
The sex offender registry can be misleading, Mr. Varela said: most sex offenders are not caught; many of those who do go to trial plead to lesser crimes, which keeps them off the registry; and juveniles, who are committing sexual assaults in record numbers, are not listed on the registry.
A misconception caught on several years ago, said Ángel Higüeros, chief of cartography in the municipality's office of land registry, that the city cemetery was located in Zone 20.
Those caught expressing their love for those machines can find themselves facing prosecution and being placed on the sex offenders registry.
Nothing has been published about the actual functioning of immunization registries in providing "catch-up" immunizations following resolution of a vaccine shortage.
