Human Rights Watch, a world-class independent organization, states on its website: “Human Rights Watch is dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world” (Human Rights Watch). In 2007, they published No Easy Answer, which discusses how sex offenders are affected by being registered as sex offenders. They claim that it is an injustice to “label” a person their entire life for a bad decision they made as a child. I couldn't agree more, but what the good people at Humans Rights Watch forget is that these people aren't the only ones on the sex offender registry; there are those who have committed unspeakable crimes. Individuals like Dr. Earl Bradley, a pediatrician who sexually abused over a hundred victims between the ages of six months and thirteen years! (The Week Magazine). Ohio state laws define a sex offender as one of three: a person who has committed a sex crime, a habitual sex offender, or a sexual predator. All sex offenders are required by law to notify the State Bureau of Criminal Investigation or local sheriff's offices within three days of entering a county or changing their address. Sex offenders are required to submit their fingerprints, photo, DNA, vehicle information and criminal history. Some people are entitled to written notice regarding all sexual predators and habitual sex offenders. These individuals are clients of local law enforcement, all residing within 1,000 feet of the offender's residence; the director of the public children's services agency; the superintendent of each school board of a school district; the director of each preschool program and the administrator of each daycare. These regulations, harsh as they may seem, were created...... middle of paper..." Human Rights Watch | Defending Human Rights Worldwide. Web. November 26, 2011. "'America's Worst Pedophile '? - The Week." The Week Magazine: Politics News & Cartoons, Current Events & Entertainment Online. Web. November 27, 2011. .Hall, Gordon C. "Sexual arousal as a function of physiological and cognitive variables in a sex offender population. " Archives of Sexual Behavior 1991st ser. 20.4 (1991): 359-69. Web. November 27, 2011. Marshall, WL and HE Barbaree. "An outpatient treatment program for child molesters." Annals of the Academy of New York Sciences Article First 528.1 (2006): 203-14. Web. November 27, 2011. “Ohio State Sex Offender Registration and Community Notification.” Klaaskids Children's Foundation... 2011. .