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March 14, 2003 By Government Technology
The new Web page is a complete database of the 22,000 parolees in Georgia under the supervision of the Parole Board. The site will allow users to search by ZIP code, a parolee's name, or prison ID number to find parolees living throughout Georgia.
Once found, the parolee's record includes a link to the parolee's photograph, home address, physical description, beginning and ending parole date and most serious offense. If the parolee has absconded from supervision, the record notes the absconder with a "WANTED" sign, and lists the parole office phone number for tips on the individual's whereabouts.
"This bill was purely in the interest of public safety," Johnson said. "This Web site will allow citizens to have an 'electronic neighborhood watch.' Any citizen can obtain a list of parolees, including their address and crime."
The database will be kept current by a daily upload of new information from parole officer laptops around the state. Address and parole information will never be more than one day old.
"This Board wants to be as transparent as possible," said Parole Board Member Michael Light. "That includes allowing Georgia citizens and public safety officials to know where parolees are living and working in our communities."
The Web page is a result of Johnson's Senate Bill 23, nicknamed the "Know Thy Neighbor Act," which passed through the Georgia legislature in 1997.
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We have eight or nine parolees in our Real-Estate, using fake I.D. cards, and stealing, and lieing about their actual names, reasons for taking someones I.D. and employing themselves in their places, the people that are doing this, are Williams family members, along with a AMW.com fugitives running and trying to refurbish our apartments and telling lease holders we can not stay in our apartments while they repair doors and windows only. We getting pressure from these guys, so we looked up the on Georgia Pardon and Parolee Database and they are not supposed to be employed in our buildings. We live at 1135 Oakland Lane, New West End Apartments Atlanta, Georgia 30310, some of these people are from other towns in Georgia,they are fixing it up, but giving us hell at the same time. The Williams seem to be interested in what they can steal and did a takeover on these apartment complex, the bank is taking these apartment over from DRCKS in January, and these people all of sudden showed up, asking the men who are employed for this company for jobs, but yet they steal I.D. from other people and lie. Could you please look into this. Thank-You