"It's not just that I can pay the Registry to get to the head of the line, it's the Registry is selling that right to a private business that is able to extract a profit from me for that access," Enrich said. .
In Orleans Parish, 292 people are on the registry for selling sex, versus 85 people convicted of forcible rape and 78 convicted of "indecent behavior with juveniles".
The government says it will retain ownership of the data once the registry is sold, but software upgrades of the register will be undertaken by its private owner.
Why should the Land Registry be sold?
Liberia's ship registry, which sells "flags of convenience" to the world's maritime fleets and has long been a major source of the country's revenue, was and still is administered by Americans.
For $32, the New York-based Lunar Registry will sell you an acre in the Sea of Tranquility–"the moon's most prestigious location".
The finance minister, Mathias Cormann, said the government might not end up selling the registry into private hands but it was considering bids.
Eg: "Do you want the Land Registry to be sold to American hedge funds?" Noel Hodson Oxford.
According to documents at the Land Registry, Donnor last year sold a six bedroom house in Barnes, south-west London, for £4.4m and bought the mansion, which dates from the 16th century.
He publishes three glossy magazines under the duPont Registry umbrella that sell expensive automobiles, homes and yachts.
