New York's sex offender registration system is broken. The time has come to fix it.
There are more than 42,000 people in New York who have to register as sex offenders — about the population of Poughkeepsie. Sex offender registration can affect every aspect of a person’s life: where he lives, where he can travel, how he is treated by his neighbors, the community and even the police.
But the system for determining risk level is flawed, producing predictably inaccurate results based on a “Risk Assessment Instrument” that was last…