The Awareness Center writes:
Rabbi Baruch Lanner's Parole will be up on November 23, 2009.
Last week The Awareness Center when looking up Lanner on the National Sex Offender Registry we were made aware that Rabbi Baruch Lanner no longer appears on the New Jersey, Florida or National Sex Offender Registry. While we were trying to find out the reason why, we were told that sex offenders have rights and that the matter was confidential. At one point one of our volunteers spoke to Lanner's current parole officer, who stated that asking the question regarding Lanner's removal from the sex offender registry could be seen as a "hate crime", for harassing the offender. We have great concern regarding Baruch Lanner's removal from the sex offender registry. The goal of the registry is to hopefully prevent a convicted sex offender from harming any more children. That is the same goal as this e-mail. The Awareness Center needs help in learning why someone like Lanner would be removed from a registry which was established by our government.
The Awareness Center's page on Baruch Lanner is back up. On it we have entries from the National sex offender's registry dating back to October 16, 2009.