Perhaps the only thing worse than being a Glendening appointee in 2003 is being an Ehrlich appointee in 2007 (and onward.) Ask former Prince George’s County Sheriff James Aluisi: he was appointed to head a sex offender review task force in late 2006 by then-Gov. Ehrlich and then spent three years wandering in the wilderness of state government trying to get someone to empanel his panel.
Former Prince George's County James Aluisi became a veritable "Ghost in the Machine" after his attempts to empanel a sex offender review board fell flat.
Now, thanks to the intrepid reporting of The Sun’s Julie Bykowicz, Aluisi’s panel is set to meet … without him. Aluisi has been replaced by O’Malley’s father-in-law, former Attorney General Joe Curran. Bykowicz first reported last week about Aluisi’s three-year long struggle to get anyone from the O’Malley administration to help get the sex offender review board off the ground.
Thus we dub Aluisi Maryland’s own “Ghost in the Machine” (yes, I realize it is an album, not a song … wait for it.) Like a “Spirit in the Material World,” Aluisi screamed and screamed for attention (by his account) and found himself only in “Darkness.” His attempts to “Rehumanize” himself, vis a vis The Sun, were in vain (a shame considering that could have been a high-profile post for the former lawman, given the prominence of sex offender legislation this year following the death of an 11-year-old Eastern Shore girl.)
