How can I use Megan's Law to protect my children?
In order to use Megan's Law to protect your children, what you want to do is find out the identity of offending individuals, and then make sure your children don't have contact with those individuals. There are any number of scenarios where using Megan's Law will work. Megan's Law can certainly work in athletic leagues. It can work at school. It can work within your neighborhood itself. One interesting scenario would be a single mother who is interested in having a romantic relationship with an individual. It never hurts to go on the Megan's Law website to see if that individual is a registered offender, as in fact he may be using that mother to get close to the children. That has happened time and time again. So there are a million ways to use Megan's Law to the advantage of possibly vulnerable children. What we have to be careful with with Megan's Law is that we don't use it to extract vigilante retribution. That is the big "if" with Megan's Law, and has always been the argument. But, historically, with ten years of Megan's Law being policy, we find that there is very little of that kind of activity, that people are actually using it for the intent that it was set up.
