GOVERNOR O’MALLEY IGNORES IMPLEMENTATION OF PREVIOUSLY PASSED SEX OFFENDER BILLS, INCLUDING HB-18 FROM 2008.

The Sun Papers recently ran an article disclosing that the O’Malley administration had failed to appoint anyone to the Sexual Offender’s Advisory Board since the law was passed creating it.  In addition there were to be risk assessments done on the offenders being released and of  300 possible only 2 have been done. 

This got me to thinking whether anyone had bothered to implement some of the sex offender legislation which I had proposed and which had been passed.  After all, when you fight to get a bill through committee then off the floor and through the other chamber’s committee and floor, you assume that once the Governor has signed the bill into law that it will then do the good it was intended to do, by being implemented.   

I just learned that the Bill I had proposed which passed in 2008, HB-18, which required all the registered sex offenders (Now 4147 child sex offenders in Maryland) who use computers or own cars,  to register thier screen names and other information about their cars and licenses on the sex offender registry so the public could monitor persons who might be lurking about on  My Space, Face Book, playgrounds or other sites where children may be, HAS BEEN TOTALLY IGNORED BY THE ADMINISTRATION.

This bill was passed and signed into law and was to take effect Oct. 1, 2008. According to the O’Malley  Administration, none of the more than four thousand current child sexual predators on the sex offender list  use computers, drives a car or has a license, because not a single person has that information listed on the sexual offender list, as the law requires.

We have contacted the Adminstration Officials  for an explanation and will provide more information once it becomes available.