The Unethical Dilemma of an Offense Based Sex Offender Registration and Notification System and the Indiscriminate Effect on the Low Risk Offender.
The Law Review article linked to below was written by Kenneth H. Browning, a third-year law student at Barry University School of Law. He examines ethics in the sex offender registration scheme and questions whether it is ethical to sweep up everybody into a common dust bin. He asks, “why is Adrian, a registered sex offender who had sex with a girl who said she was 18 years old when they met at an Over 18 Club, on the same list as Jesse Timmendequas, who forcefully sexually assaulted and murdered a seven-year old girl from his neighborhood? In these cases, and several others we will review, lady justice has been truly blind. Blind to indiscriminate and damaging sociological, psychological, and economic trauma exacted on registered sex offenders as a result of the indiscriminate effects of the notification requirement. Legislature, opting to deal swiftly with the offense, has failed to deal accurately with the offender”
Read his article and share your thoughts.
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This is an excellent work, but I do wish it had been given a thorough editorial review before publication for punctuation, spelling and typos. There are too many mistakes of this type in this article (treatise) and there should not be.
Thank you Edward. My Law Review was written as part of a graduation requirement and it has been reviewed several times. It has also been reviewed through Grammarly. I began researching the legal topic March of 2019 and began writing it in September of 2019. It has been reviewed by my professor and myself on several drafts. I also served as a high school writing, literature (British and American), and poetry teacher. I know it is always possible to make grammatical and syntactical errors in any writing. I find them constantly in almost every book I read…and that’s a lot of books.
If you have found any errors, please submit to me and I will make the corrections. Many books are published with errors that have escaped editorial review and I know the same is here, but I haven’t been able to spot any and apparently Grammarly has not either…or my professors. So please assist me in finding them and I will correct for personal reasons.
My email address is [email protected].
Thanks Edward! Be blessed.
This thread begun with my criticism of someone who openly admitted to texting sexual notes to an underage child.
If I’m not mistaken the purpose and intent of The Florida action committee is to reform the SORNA and try to stop the never ending and ever more punitive restrictions.
Must if not all these restrictions being imposed are in reaction to some inappropriate sexual action taken upon a minor by offender.
The last thing we need is for some high level activist or any of the members and associates involved in the reform of sex offender laws, to be convicted of a new offense or appear to be supportive of someone minimizing inappropriate teen texting.
The years of hard work building up whatever support organizations like FAC have established can be instantly reversed and damaged by the acts of just one activist.
So yeah, I’ll call out someone who openly admits to sending sexual notes to a teen. No one on this blog should be supportive of that kind of behavior.
Nuff said.
CMC
Thank you for that clarification. Nobody should be advocating exemption from true crimes. There just needs to be a lot of clarification as to what is a crime and what is not. Also the punishment should fit the crime. Right now none of that exists. The registry doesn’t serve any useful service except to punish and it’s being denied as being a punishment. Also it’s destroying lives of these ones and all related to them. Plus prohibiting the offenders from being rehabilitated.
Yes the the teen can say what ever age they want to on line I was arrested for solicitation to a minor I wrote section notes to her she was only fifteen nothing happened to her for giving me sex notes on line or over the phone. Now I am a registered sex offender that is totally wrong
I am also on registry for meeting a guy in over 21 club passed a lie detector test to show I had no idea and needless to say I did 13 years in and been home 2 years. Honestly it’s been harder to handle at home then In prison. I search everyday for any information that could help me especially now and some things done to violate sex offenders that I don’t believe he can actually violate us for. I have yet to get any correct information and they just send me back to speak to local sheriff which is who I am asking about in the first place. New world lots of open spots in registry for all kinds of manipulation from law enforcement and no definitive answer on certain aspects on legal or not in our world.
Hi Crystal, I understand your predicate I too was lied on,my girlfriend told me she was 18 and I met her parents but still got pop because she was 15…. I really hate to say this I had no problem in prison because I worked out,,, I did get into fights but was because guys could not control their own behavior not because of my charges.
I couldn’t take any vocational classes since people like us wouldn’t get hired but living on the street or in the free world has began to be confusing silly laws I had family in fla. but they never visit or care enough to help me so the decision was easy I left fla. and went to AZ been here no problems I got a decent landlord . If FaC allowes it and your interested I offer u to get out of that state I know who and where to go too here in this state I had in the past posted information
I was aressted in clay county florida leaving a bar never went to the place yet i was beaten an arrested for traveling to meet a minor in 2012 i went to prison for 5 years an 10 years sex offender probation lifetime registration i have been fired from jobs for charges im constantly picked on i have attempted suicide on 2 occasions so yea the punishments are way to harsh i cant even have a normal life nor see my children because of this its time to stop this murderers and rapists are treated better