In today's society with the rapidly growing use of the Internet it is easy to look up almost anyone's phone number, address, and now criminal history. This ability is not necessarily a bad thing until it is abused. There is no harm in looking up an old friends phone number or making sure there are no sex offenders in the neighborhood you plan to raise your family in. But for websites like CriminalSearch.com it is imperative for the website to explain the severity of the crime. An occasional speeding ticket should not be able to label one as a criminal. On the other hand although I do believe in the right to privacy many people would feel a lot safer to know they are not living near, working with, or dating a murderer. Its not to say people cant change but if a website like this is not willing to clarify the severity of the crime, it shoudl not exist.
For example... A girl I went to high school with ran a yellow (about to turn red) light on New Years eve. She crashed into a car whos driver was drunk. She on the other hand was completly sober. The drunk driver died and she walked away fine. However after a 2 year jail sentance this now 19 year old girl is labled a murderer. Its possible to say that the drunk driver turned before his light turned green casuing her to hit him... but no one will ever really know. So now anyone anywhere can look her name up and it will them them that she is not only a criminal but a murderer. It will not say that the other driver was drunk, it will not say that he made a mistake also, it will just say that this innocent 19 year old girl has killed someone.
Its not that its not fair for the world not to know others crimes for safety purposes, its just that its not fair to not tell the whole story. Today if you are arressted for streaking- you are changed as a sex offeneder. So if one wild night in college you decide it might be a good idea to go streaking with your frat brothers keep in mind that you could be labled as a sex offender and one day people may be moving out of the very neighborhood you live in because they are scared of what you may do to their children. Its not fair but its what our society has become.
