I AM NOT a fan of Social Development minister Anne Tolley's plans for a child sex-offender register, to be introduced next July.
It might seem logical, prudent even, that police and social services have access to a confidential register, which can be used to assist to monitoring over a set number of years, or even for the offender's lifetime.
Details can be passed on to certain members of the community, like school principals.
My difficulty is these things are logical in an administrative sense but highly emotional in a community sense.
They are prone to demands for access by social extremists and also, I believe, are unfair.