Friday, August 20, 2004

Plan to trail sex crims in disarray / STUFF New Zealand, 20 Aug 2004

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3008599a10,00.html:
Oskar Alley
"A plan to use Government departments to monitor freed child sex offenders has faltered after they refused to share information and failed to show up for meetings. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe new initiative is to be introduced nationwide. However%2C as well as %22significant%22 privacy problems%2C in a trial a paedophile being tracked was able to reoffend and was sent back to prison. %0D%0AFor the past year Government agencies have been monitoring 22 offenders in Dunedin%2C back in the community after jail time for sex crimes against children aged under 16. %0D%0AThe trial aimed to make agencies such as police%2C Child%2C Youth and Family Services%2C Housing NZ and Work and Income Department share information on the men and keep tabs on where they lived and worked. "