State bureaucrats ponder if it is worth spending 8 million of state tax money in order to receive $240,000 in federal money

In Colorado, officials have met for more than a year to decide whether to comply with the Adam Walsh Act by July or lose $240,000 in federal funding.

And it may be worth losing the money since it could cost more to fulfill the law's requirements.

The Justice Policy Institute, a Washington think tank that promotes alternatives to prison incarceration, has estimated that the law would cost Colorado $7.8 million to implement.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_10525744

The answer seems pretty clear to me, don’t do it. Why accept $240,000 from the federal government so that you can implement a program that costs almost 8 million, and will not really even do anything?

I have never understood why people think putting a name in a database, whether it is for guns or a rapist makes anyone any safer. We have had some sort of sex-offender registry for a long time now, and as far as I can tell it has not done anything to improve safety and has only served to harass the people convicted of these crimes after they have been released from jail.