By EARYEL BOWLEG
#Tribune Staff Reporter
#A KIOSK has been unveiled as part of the process to digitise the Sexual Offenders Registry.
#The kiosk was presented to the Wulff Road Police Station yesterday by National Security Minister Wayne Munroe, Acting Commissioner of Corrections Doan Cleare and other officials and will allow the information to be accessed electronically.
#Mr Munroe said that as of July last year, there was a fully staffed section devoted to managing the sexual offenders register, to ensure that all sex offenders sentenced as of that date were added to it. This follows the passing of the Sexual Offenders Amendment Act in 2014, which came into effect in July 2019.
#Offenders sentenced since July 24, 2019, are placed on the register – with 27 offenders to date on the register.
#The registry unit is part of the Bahamas Department of Correctional Services (BDCS). Seven months ago, the operations were manual and officials are now moving to fully digitise it.
#With the new system, magistrates can log on in court and transmit information directly.
