Pubdate: Mon, 21 Jan 2008
Source: News-Enterprise, The (Elizabethtown, KY)
Copyright: 2008 News-Enterprise
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Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1663
Author: Carol Brown

SUPPORT REGISTRATION FOR DRUG OFFENDERS

Isn't it nice to see Kentucky potentially be the  vanguard of a
national movement instead of its hind  end? Right now, Kansas is the
only state in the U.S.  (that I am aware of at least) that has
established a  system of registration for convicted dope dealers and
manufacturers. Kentucky could join Kansas if House Bill  96, sponsored
by Rep. Rick Nelson, D-Middlesboro,  passes this year's General Assembly.

Kentucky has had a sex offender registration system for  years now,
but am I alone in seeing in the papers many  more arrests for meth
labs and crack pushers than for  rapists and pedophiles? Surely no
Kentucky family has  not been touched by the harm of illegal drugs and
those  who make and sell them. I urge all the mothers out  there to
call their legislators and ask them to support  this important bill to
keep the eye of the law on those  who have endangered the public
safety and health.

CAROL BROWN

Louisville
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MAP posted-by: Steve Heath