CT: Low-risk sex offenders could come off registry
HARTFORD — The Judiciary Committee advanced a bill that would allow some low-risk offenders to come off the state’s public sex offender registry — a move that proponents said would make it easier for law enforcement to focus on high-risk offenders.
SB 1113 is based on years of work by state officials including the Office of Policy and Management and the Sentencing Commission to determine effective ways of making the registry more equitable based on risk factors rather than offenses, said Robert Farr, a former legislator and a former head of the Board of Pardons and Paroles.
“When every sex offender is listed on the same registry, then everybody is assumed to be high-risk, and neither law enforcement or the public has any way to distinguish high-risk from low-risk,” Farr said in his testimony to the committee. “SB 1113 makes major changes in the registry to make it more focused and useful.”
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Years ago I wrote CT Sex Offenders State Registry and inquired about residing there and what my requirements would be as a current FL registrant. They asked for my paperwork in which I e-mailed. I received a official letter in the mail a few weeks later stating I would have no requirements to register! Why? Adjudication Withheld in my case (no felony) They state CT does not consider Adjudication being Withheld a Conviction. JEV
awesome! and as you said before yrs ago but still good may want to look deeper Just sayin Adjudication being Withheld same here but NEVER TRUST A REGISTORY or some vindictive ass sherriff who wants to make a name for them selves…may want to explore Megans law and changes, i plan on it again
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
Perhaps we should be approaching this from a fraud angle. If Florida gets federal funds for the number of registered citizens on its registry then a suit should be brought to clean up the registry. There are approximately 73,000 people on the registry however only 28,000 actually live in Florida communities. Almost 21,000 of them live out of state. Over 18,000 are in some sort of confinement. What it comes down to is this. 60% of those listed are out of state, confined, dead or deported. Source: OPPAGA Report put out in December of 2018 using numbers from October of 2018.
FAC has been trying to raise funds for this very thing, however very few people have donated to it
The problem is that the people that need F.A.C the most have the least to give, hence the saying “it is better to be rich and guilty rather than poor and innocent”(not that we are innocent but most have paid their debt to society) most of our restrictions make it hard for us to live never mind support the law suits we so desperately need. I wish there was a place or people with endless amounts of money that could donate just a small amount to get some of these suits off the ground. being off the list if i move to another state and they take me off would make me want to go in a minute.
Or we just need to reach out to more people who can give smaller amounts. There are more than 70,000 on the registry. More than 28,000 in the community. If each gave a couple dollars we would be there. Even if 10% gave, we would be good. I see the donation logs. Fewer than 2/10ths of 1% on the registry donated. Less than 10% of the people on our own mailing list donated. I get that people don’t have money or don’t think $5 a month makes a difference, but it does. If EVERY member made a monthly $5 contribution we’d be filing left and right!
70000 on the registry in Florida?? i thought that was a bogus number
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in time i see many changes of $50.00 pr month for life for Members be best to give now and avoid the Bleek future of life I do know that If I ever hit a windfall of cash my first donations will me to stomp out AWA/megans law as well as the registory
and im not even a member. to many lives have been destroyed including the families or members
Good Day
Monies are funneled to State Jurisdictions thru what is known as ‘JAG’ Grants….google it…named after a policeman who got killed in the line of duty….all of our laws are based on mass hysteria!-not on Empirical DATA-ONE BIG MARKETING SCHEME TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC!
https://www.law360.com/articles/1149300/sex-offenders-win-shot-at-release-from-indefinite-prison