Conservatively Speaking
State Senator Mary Lazich (R-New Berlin) represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth. Her Senate District 28 includes New Berlin, Franklin, Greendale, Hales Corners, Muskego, Waterford, Big Bend and parts of Greenfield, East Troy, and Mukwonago. Senator Lazich has been in the Legislature for more than a decade. She considers herself a tireless crusader for lower taxes, reduced spending and smaller government.
Good news in the fight against sex offenders
By Mary Lazich
Thursday, May 1 2008, 08:19 PM
The federal Office of Justice Programs’ Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) Office has awarded the state of Wisconsin a $204,780 grant to make improvements to the state’s Sex Offender Registry Program.
The enhancements are expected to make information about each registrant more accessible and accurate to law enforcement, according to the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC). With the one-year grant, the department will institute changes that will allow quicker sex offender data updates and create a system for Sex Offender Registry staff to verify offender address information that appears on the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry web site.
The DOC says the grant money will be used to:
• Create and attach scanned records on each registrant to the Law Enforcement Sex Offender Registry web site, allowing law enforcement to access PDF files with complete and accurate sex offender registry records.
• Develop an improved address verification program, resulting in greater registrant accountability and information accuracy.
• Analyze Wisconsin’s Sex Offender Registry law and compare day-to-day registry operations against new federal registry mandates under the Adam Walsh Act.
• Update registration data collection tools to fulfill mandates under the Adam Walsh Act.
Here are details on the Adam Walsh Act.
These improvements will increase the state’s ability to ensure offenders do not remain anonymous in our neighborhoods.
Here is more information about the Wisconsin Sex Offender Registry Program.
