Canada's sex offender registry remains a dysfunctional mess. Registration isn't even mandatory. A prosecutor must ask a judge to add a defendant to the database, and since the law took effect, barely half of all convicted sex offenders have been ordered to sign up. The rest - thousands of molesters, child pornographers and other loathsome criminals - are under no obligation to tell police where they live. The registry can barely keep track of sex offenders who are ordered to comply. At last count, 16,295 names appear on the system; 1,270 are considered non-compliant. Some of those people never registered at all. Others have failed to check in as required - 317 in Ontario, 201 in Alberta, 134 in British Columbia. Quebec is the worst, by far. The province is home to 2,554 registered sex offenders. One in five (480) are missing. According to internal government documents obtained by Maclean's under the Access to Information Act, the registry is crippled by one major problem: Ottawa's obsession with privacy. The feds are so determined to protect the rights of convicted sex offenders that most police officers are not allowed to access the system. Forget the general public. "I'm not sure that public access is the answer, but I'm bloody sure this isn't the answer," says Paul Gillespie, former head of the Toronto police child exploitation unit. "This is a national embarrassment." Every aspect of the registry benefits the sex offender, not the public or the police. We need to make a change to our laws. These offenders need not get bail or any pardons. They are animals and shouldn't be able to walk our streets, where our children live and play. The government at minimum should put them all on house arrest. These pedophiles are getting sent home on bail so easily it's sick. Most of the time, all their assurity needs is the funds and an address. That's sick!!!! They swear under oath that they will monitor the offender? Yeah ok? A 35 yr old pedophile that lives with his mom as assurity is going to listen to her when she says he's not allowed on the internet or allowed to leave the house. She would never call the police on him....i mean come on; the woman just gave assurity to a child molester. This country NEEDS TO TAKE THESE ANIMALS off our streets immediately.

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