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Did you know that Military Justice System Hides Child Sex Offender Information?
Did you know that Military Justice System Hides Child Sex Offender Information?
RP Members do you agree or disagree? Are we as an institution doing the right thing by keeping this information on "Close Hold?"
Opaque military justice system shields child sex abuse cases
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2015-11-18-US--Military%20Sexual%20Assault-Child%20Predators-ABRIDGED/id-8a1d31b893774b6fa7a84e942789e682
An investigation by The Associated Press has found that although sex offenders make up 61% of the criminals held within the military prison system, a full account of those crimes is unavailable due to the military’s justice system. More than half of those cases involved children.
Because the military justice system operates outside the purview of state and federal criminal courts, visibility into military trials is minimal.
According to Eugene Fidell, a former Coast Guard judge advocate who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, “I can sit at my computer in New Haven and find out what was filed five minutes ago in a case in federal district court in Seattle, but to get copies of motions filed last week in a general court-martial at Fort Lewis would take months if not years, while the Freedom of Information Act wheels ground along.”
Although military trials aren’t technically closed, they take place on military bases, which are closed to the public.
Did you know that Military Justice System Hides Child Sex Offender Information?
RP Members do you agree or disagree? Are we as an institution doing the right thing by keeping this information on "Close Hold?"
Opaque military justice system shields child sex abuse cases
http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/386c25518f464186bf7a2ac026580ce7/Article_2015-11-18-US--Military%20Sexual%20Assault-Child%20Predators-ABRIDGED/id-8a1d31b893774b6fa7a84e942789e682
An investigation by The Associated Press has found that although sex offenders make up 61% of the criminals held within the military prison system, a full account of those crimes is unavailable due to the military’s justice system. More than half of those cases involved children.
Because the military justice system operates outside the purview of state and federal criminal courts, visibility into military trials is minimal.
According to Eugene Fidell, a former Coast Guard judge advocate who teaches military justice at Yale Law School, “I can sit at my computer in New Haven and find out what was filed five minutes ago in a case in federal district court in Seattle, but to get copies of motions filed last week in a general court-martial at Fort Lewis would take months if not years, while the Freedom of Information Act wheels ground along.”
Although military trials aren’t technically closed, they take place on military bases, which are closed to the public.
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Not sure this is the case. Outcomes of courts martial, arrests, warrants, and other LE interactions go into NCIC, like all other civilian LE interactions. http://www.afjag.af.mil/questions/jaja/frequentlyaskedquestions.asp#ten
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LTC Jason Mackay
This doesn't look particularly hidden: http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/crime/2015/06/16/ucmj-military-court-justice/28811089/
Army releases verdicts of May courts-martial
The Army on Tuesday released a summary report of 67 verdicts from May courts-martial, including 9 cases in which the accused soldier was acquitted of
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs That opaqueness is disconcerting. I have not done so, but on Civy side we have the ability to track sex offenders. I would presume there is no lifetime stigma or branding from such convictions?
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