August 5, 2020, 8:33 am
Federal Judge Esther Salas, whose son was tragically killed last week, spoke out for the first time since the incident. As she explained in a video published by the Savoy Show, “A madman – who I believe was targeting me because of my position as a federal judge – came to my house.” The madman shot her son and her husband, killing her son, severely injuring her husband and then took off. The suspect was found dead a day later, having turned the gun on himself.
In her video, she says, “what we cannot accept is when we are forced to live in fear for our lives because personal information, like our home addresses, can easily be obtained by anyone seeking to do us or our families harm.”
She continues, “the free flow of information from the internet allowed this sick and depraved individual to find all of our information and target us.”
Our hearts go out to Judge Salas on her loss. She is right. NOBODY should be forced to live in fear because personal information is made easily available to people intending to do them harm.
The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) mandates that information on persons who are required to register as sex offenders be made available to the public. States publish this information online, Municipal police departments re-publish it on social media pages. News stations re-publish it on their own websites. And private “mugshot sites” create their own registries and further re-publish the information. Details about where they live, what car they drive, where they work and what they look like can be accessed with a few keystrokes.
Sadly, there is no shortage of people who want to do harm to people required to register and unfortunately we have seen many cases where people have been killed, registrants and their family members, solely because of their presence on a public registry.
What happened to Judge Salas is a tragedy. Maybe now that it has hit closer to home, judges will recognize the danger of having too much information publicly available.
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