Personal privacy or Public awareness...???

Gosh its been a long time since my last post. Sorry about that. Today I did something for the first time. I searched an online sex-offender registry. You know, to see if there were any living next door to me or whatever. Sure enough, the search came back with 26 offenders within 1 mile of my residence. I wasn't surprised so much that there were any, ....just that there were that many...that Close!! I mean, 1 mile ain't much... Anyway, while I was searching, I began thinking about all the controversy that has come up in the past and even now about predator registries. Personally, I feel a little torn on the issue. Being a private person myself...(yeah, and i have a blog :) I am all for 'rights to personal privacy' and all that, but as a single (well, engaged) white female of college age, my priorities are still shifted a little more to the 'my own personal safety' side. You see, on that side, I say "you forfeited your right to privacy when you did whatever you did to get on the registry in the first place." I don't know. Like I said...I was just thinking about both sides of the issue and thought it would make an interesting blog someone else just might have an opinion on. Thoughts mighty welcome :)