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Methamphetamine:
Tennessee
Creates
Meth
Offender
Registry
1/6/06
https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/417/tnregistry.shtml
With the new year, meth offenders
join sex offenders as social pariahs deserving of a permanent electronic
registry in Tennessee. Just before year's end, the Tennessee Bureau
of Investigation (TBI) got a new, online Meth
Offender Registry up and running that will enable anyone anywhere to
quickly and easily look for persons convicted of methamphetamine offenses
in Tennessee.
The database searches for
meth offenders either by last name and first initial or by county.
The TBI describes the registry as "another tool to help fight the war on
meth." The registry is part of a larger public-private partnership
to fight methamphetamine use and production in Tennessee headed by the
TBI and known as MethWatch.
As the popular stimulant
has made its way east across North America, states have enacted a variety
of measures to combat the drug ranging from increased sentences to restricting
sales of precursor chemicals, but no state has yet gone the registry route
that has proven so popular in identifying sex offenders. But the
Meth-Free Tennessee Act of 2005 requires that such a registry be created
for meth offenders.
At present, the TBI said,
not all meth offenders will be listed, only those with a "substantive violation."
According to TBI, that means people convicted only of conspiracy, attempt,
or facilitation of meth offenses will not be registered. But while
proponents of the registry tout it as a tool for finding neighborhood meth
cooks, even people convicted only of simple possession will make the roll.
What's next? Ordinances
or state laws saying that meth offenders can be excluded from living within
1000 yard of a school or park or arcade? Permanent monitoring?
A scarlet "M"?
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Issue #417
-- 1/6/06
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Set
to
Rest
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Governor's
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Running
Out
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to
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Sacred
Cows
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on
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Nevada
to
Free
the
Weed
in
2006
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Law
Enforcement:
This
Week's
Corrupt
Cops
Stories
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Methamphetamine:
Tennessee
Creates
Meth
Offender
Registry
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Medical
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Sativex
Wins
FDA
Approval
for
Trials
in
US
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in
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to
Expand
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