Inside Edition to air segment on sex offenders delivering mail in Texas
TweetThe tabloid news program Inside Edition will air a report on registered sex offenders working for the postal service in Texas. Correspondent Lisa Guerrero posted this preview on her blog at the Huffington post:
Public records in Texas led us to the discovery of registered sex offenders working in the US Postal Service, delivering mail, unsupervised, into neighborhoods, schools and even an amusement park. On Monday’s show I confront these mail carriers and ask whether or not it’s safe for sex offenders to deliver mail right to your front door. Wait until you see the official response we got from the Postal Service.
Although we shot these stories in Texas, registered sex offenders are working in hotels and in post office branches throughout the country. We are certainly not saying that registered sex offenders don’t deserve to find reasonable employment after they serve their time, but does it make sense for them to have access to personal information and keys at hotels and wear the trusted uniform of a mail carrier in your neighborhood?
via Lisa Guerrero: Confronting Your Neighbor Sex Offenders on Inside Edition.
April 30th, 2010 10:43
Not in my neighborhood!!
April 30th, 2010 11:01
JUST MAKE SURE YOU DO NOT INDICT THE WHOLE SERVICE OR LEAVE THE IMPRESSION THAT CHILDREN SHOULD FEAR THEIR LETTER CARRER.
April 30th, 2010 11:03
THEN WHY DON’T YOU PUBLISH MY COMMENT?
April 30th, 2010 17:41
The Postal Service instituted a sex offender computer matching program and also added a sex offender reporting requirement to the ELM.
http://ribbs.usps.gov/files/fedreg/usps2009/E9-29383.PDF
May 1st, 2010 05:44
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May 2nd, 2010 08:19
the question I have is were they sex offenders when they were hired or after, management has no authority to go into your Police records as far as I know so how would they know
May 2nd, 2010 08:27
after being hired
May 2nd, 2010 08:41
“management has no authority to go into your Police records”
Sex offender registries are public information- generally, anyone can access them.
As far as convictions occurring after you are employed, according to the ELM: “Conviction for a violation of any criminal statute may be grounds for disciplinary action against an employee, including removal of the employee, in addition to any other penalty imposed pursuant to statute.” Convictions are are also public records.
May 2nd, 2010 09:13
Did Ms. Guerrero confront the unions which fight tooth and nail to save these people’s jobs when the Postal Service removes them? To indict the Postal Service for this is blaming the victim.
May 2nd, 2010 09:18
No, it isn’t. The union can only get someone’s job back when they were improperly removed in the first place. If the USPS management doesn’t do its job right, or a judge or arbitrator makes a bad decision, they are the ones to blame, not the union.
May 2nd, 2010 15:56
Arbitrators only hear a case if the UNION appeals it to them. It is the unions that are FIGHTING to keep these people in their jobs, not management or arbitrators. It’s despicable to blame people for making a mistake while trying to do what’s right, rather than the people who are doing wrong.
May 2nd, 2010 18:02
Sorry, Bob, but unions are there to defend workers. In this country people have the right to due process to defend themselves when accused of wrongdoing. I certainly have no desire to have a convicted sex offender delivering mail in my neighborhood, but I also want to make sure that if someone is accused of something, that we make damn sure we’ve got the facts straight before we ruin his or her life. What you don’t seem to grasp is that due process is about defending innocent people, not criminals. You can’t do that unless you make sure everyone, even the most heinous sex offender, has the opportunity to defend himself. And my point still stands- the union can’t force the USPS to keep a sex offender (or any other offender) on the job if that violates the law, the code of ethics, or the contract.