community notification

How well community notification works is still up for debate.

Given these problems, community notification can do little to enhance public safety.

Community notification in Washington state: 1996 survey of law enforcement.

It does not specify how that community notification must take place.

Community notification is believed by some to enhance public safety.

Community notification laws have attracted widespread support in recent years.

Two courts found the city violated state law by not providing enough community notification.

"Community notification creates some kind of outer control on these individuals," he said.

However, several limitations to and problems associated with community notification indicate that this is not the case.

In most cases, community notification on a broad scale has more negative consequences than positive.

Louisiana is an extreme example of a state with broad community notification laws.

Victor is not certain he would have turned himself in had the community notification law already been in force.

However, community notification laws actually give the community a false sense of security.

Community notification laws: A step toward more effective solutions.

Recently, the United States government enacted federal legislation about community notification.

This group was subject to broad community notification after release from Minnesota prisons between 1997 and 2002.

A handful of states have already struck down community notification statutes as unconstitutional.

But in the past, community notification has led to vigilantism, and the current bill does not do enough to prevent such potential abuses.

Community notification about this program will occur in a combination of ways including:

Another problem with community notification is that it often results in vigilante behaviour against released offenders.

He said he did not propose community notification earlier because no one was pressing for it.

He added that the Cornwall example illustrated how community notification could occur without the state's help.