Setting our sights on an important milestone: 10,000 signatures.

When we launched our Change.org petition, calling for an end to public sex offender registration and highlighting its conflict with fundamental human rights principles, we knew it would be an uphill battle. Yet thousands of people have already added their names, recognizing that public registries do not simply affect those listed on them—they impact spouses, children, families, and entire communities.

Today, we are setting our sights on an important milestone: 10,000 signatures. Because numbers matter. Every signature represents a voice demanding that policymakers, journalists, researchers, and the public take a closer look at the human consequences of public registration laws. A petition with a few hundred signatures can be dismissed. A petition with thousands becomes harder to ignore. A petition with 10,000 signatures sends a powerful message that this issue affects far more people than those directly listed on a registry.

We are currently at 9,188 signatures. If you have already signed, thank you. Now we ask one more favor: share this petition with your friends, family members, colleagues, and anyone who believes that human rights apply to everyone. Send it to human rights organizations and ask them to promote it. If you are in group, share it with the other participants. If you belong to a religious community, social group, book club, or anywhere else you have an audience, share it with them and ask them to promote it.

Together, let’s reach 10,000 signatures and show that there is a growing movement of people willing to stand for fairness, dignity, and policies grounded in facts rather than fear.

The petition can be found here: https://www.change.org/p/public-sex-offender-registration-is-violation-of-universal-declaration-of-human-rights