00:00After more than 20 years, Daniel Morecambe's legacy lives on.
00:07This law will be in honour of an innocent young boy from the Sunshine Coast and it will
00:13be known as Daniel's Law.
00:15The state opposition has announced if elected in October, it will implement a public child
00:20sex offender registry.
00:22If this register can even protect one child from being put in harm's way and having their
00:28life shattered, it will be worth the register.
00:31The three-tiered system would closely mirror models from Western and South Australia.
00:36The first tier would include a website of offenders who've breached their reporting
00:40obligations.
00:41The second tier would allow residents to make an application to identify high-risk offenders
00:46in their local area.
00:48And under the final tier, parents and guardians could enquire about adults who have unsupervised
00:53contact with their children.
00:55Today we tip the balance of power back in favour of the victim.
00:59It's a proposal Bruce and Denise Morecambe have lobbied for since a convicted sex offender
01:03was found guilty of their son's murder.
01:06We'll never know whether the deterrent factor of a public accessible sex offender register
01:12would have made a difference in Cowan's case, but we hope going forward it will.
01:16Our motto is to keep kids safe and the victims have the right to be safe.
01:22If there are elements of it that are sensible and that can keep Queensland kids safer, then
01:27we'll consider those.
01:28The proposed law would cost taxpayers around $10 million, with the opposition leader vowing
01:34if he's elected Premier, he'll ensure that safeguards are put in place to prevent the
01:38misuse of information.
01:40But experts have warned that a registry could do more harm than good.
01:45There are people who are on the public offender register who shouldn't be.
01:49And far more concerning I think for me is that there are people who should be on it
01:53that are not.
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