Town council heard from delegates concerning sex offender registry, it wants to add federal
Unanimous support at Fort Erie council to demand the federal and provincial sex offender registries be made public.
Council added the federal registry to Thorold's request for the provincial registry be public.
Abuse survivor Alicia Googoo explained her story as a little girl. "My offender was on the sex offender registry, but my mother had no way of knowing that. If she had access to that information, my story and childhood may have looked very different. A little girl we know, Little E, who was violently assaulted, the man who attacked her was also on the sex offender registry."
They believe the registries are not public to prevent vigilantism, but that makes people more frustrated.
Mayor Wayne Redekop asked resident Melissa Googoo why she thinks the registries are not public... she pointed to vigilantism. "The vigilantism happens when people are left in the dark, and there's no one left to turn to, and then they take it into their own hands. Especially when your children and loved ones are being hurt... a lack of action, transparency."
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