Is Colorado Lost? Did It Ever Exist?

Colorado officials can’t find records of evaluations for more than 1,200 convicted sex offenders, so all the offenders must be studied to determine if any are sexually violent predators.

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When someone is designated a sexually violent predator, his or her photo and background is posted on a state Web site, and law officers can call neighbohood meetings to warn people the predators may be living near them.

The evaluations are required by a state law enacted in 2001, but either weren’t done or can’t be found.

Records never created cannot be lost. It’s nice to know that Colorado authorites are on the ball when it comes to sex offenders. How long will it take them to realize that “not knowing if they were done” and “lost” are two completely different things?

The state court system reported Friday it can’t find records of evaluations for 337 sex offenders convicted since May 30, 2001, and who are now on probation, according to Gerald Marroney, state court administrator.

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Colorado Attorney General John Suthers gave the court system’s list of 337 sex offenders Friday to the state’s district attorneys, instructing them to file motions asking judges to order evaluations for everyone on the list.

All the sex offenders who are to be evaluated are either in prison or on intensively supervised probation.

And exactly how do they know that all of the sex offenders are being intensively supervised? Heck, they aren’t sure if some of their records even existed, why should we believe them?

They also are listed on sex-offender registries maintained by local law enforcement agencies, which people can view to find out where the sex offenders are.

“It’s not like there was this huge pool of sexually violent predators that snuck through entirely,” Suthers said.

Well, apparently there was some huge pool of something that snuck through entirely, and it sure does stink.