If this is the first you have read about this it gets worse.

The SOR can be used as a hitlist for sure. It also keeps people from getting jobs, lose friends and family, unable to get a home (many states have restrictions on where Sex Offenders can live). There was a group of over 50 men living under a bridge in FL because there was no where else in Miami they could live.

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2009/01/death_of_sex_homeless_offender.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/10/the_skinny/main3597422.shtml

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/04/05/bridge.sex.offenders/index.html

You want to see even worse Google Wikisposure and take a look around. Most of the people they have listed on there have not even committed any crimes. When they target someone they will flier the person's neighborhood, call family and friends, let employers know that they think that person is a pedophile regardless of anything they have done.

I know more than one person who has been hurt badly by this group. One has lost many jobs friends and family over it. These things do not help protect people and anyone with a halfway decent brain knows it. They make money for certain groups and gets politicians elected. It also gives people a funnel for hatred.