Recognizing that their registry is clogged and over-burdened with thousands who pose little to no risk, the California Sex Offender Management Board has recommended that they remove some low risk offenders, including approximately 900 who have not committed an offense in over 55 years, from the registry.
The Board made these recommendations to a very reluctant legislature who acknowledged the board’s findings make sense but worry about political backlash.
Some points the Board made is that the list of almost 100,000 sex offenders is unwieldy and impossible to manage, dilutes focus from the registrants who actually require greater supervision and are based on premises which were found to be untrue in the decades since the registry was enacted.
We know that the registry and many of the corresponding requirements have proven unsuccessful in reducing sexual offenses and have, in fact, caused recidivism to increase in many cases. In is overreaching, costly, unfairly stigmatizes the families of registrants and simply does not work. Still, politicians are unwilling to do anything about it for fear of the backlash.
The Florida Action Committee hopes Legislators in California will start to put the safety of that State’s children ahead of their political agendas.
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