This morning has brought the announcement from Manchester that the Conservatives are set to give the police more power to alert communities to dangerous criminals in their midst.
Dominic Grieve told Sky News this morning that, "there should be a presumption in favour of public protection over privacy…generally speaking it ought to be possible for such people to be named if it is in the public interest that they should be."
Big Brother Watch has considered this policy announcement and its implications for individual liberty and, while the dangers of this policy are obvious, the right of the law abiding majority not to be victims of crime must be considered in the civil liberties debate.
Those who will be affected most by this legislation are likely to have been convicted on multiple occasions and it is therefore wrong to describe this policy as outrageous or unjustified.
There have been many unjust incursions into our civil liberties in recent times, but this certainly isn't one of them.
By Alex Deane