I believe the registry is barbaric. It’s a human rights and a personal hippa violation.
As a former teacher, a foster mom and a parent myself, I certainly want to know that my children and my students are safe.
But, consider this- a man or a woman who made a terrible mistake 30 plus years ago, and is on the registry for life. Even though they have done their time, gone to years of counseling (they themselves were victims, as a child). 52 different requirements piled up on them every day, and now for the rest of their lives their personal information address is out there for everyone to see and now it’s even on their license. When will it stop?
With the recidivism rates as low as they are 90 plus percent of these offenders will never offend again and yet they’re listed on the Registry list for their life. This does nothing to increase public safety and it only breeds fear and pushes these men more and more back into a lonely corner where they have no one.
#WeveGotToDoBetter
#NoMoreScarletLetters

@Concerned parent

I thought the point of keeping the police around on our tax dollars means that THEY are what’s protecting the community.

So now here’s a question: in what way is the information on sex offense registries meant to be used by people? If you mean to be aware of that person, ok. But awareness doesn’t magically grant you a badge and make you a cop, so if you’re going to do the work of one without being paid then why pay cops?

So they keep throwing around this idea of “community policing”. Ok, but then what’s the difference? Wouldn’t it make sense that only police (who can be held accountable) should have access to criminal information? Now if you’re going to argue that people have the right to know WHAT IS IT ABOUT KNOWING THAT CHANGES ANYTHING? If that person is not CURRENTLY committing a crime then they are not an OFFENDER. They may HAVE offended (and some have even been falsely accused) but if they’re out of the system then they are no longer criminals. They are now given a chance to rehabilitate and reintegrate.

And even then, try to imagine how difficult it is to reintegrate when you’ve created this shady world of social media and gosip. I believe if a person’s making the effort to reintegrate and they’re keeping inline with what’s expected of them then that person should be left alone. There’s nothing to fear from that person other than what the scare tactics of district attorneys and politicians want people to fear.

Besides that, anyone supporting tougher sex offense laws or stricter regulations should try to imagine being one of those aforementioned “falsely accused” people. Imagine how easy it is to lie in today’s world and how that lie can ruin a person and their family’s lives.

And the effort that will be made by the district attorneys to cover-up the lie. Imagine that. Because that’s the country you’re building with all this bad legislation.

Thanks,.. I wanted to hear that, I will turn a blind eye from now on when someone is drowning. It’s on you..

Offenders often save lives, from drowning ect. Save the people that want to Hang them Registry is so harsh… sometimesto hell with it, let em ..drown. that really rips the conscience at night. Regestry kills people. Truth.
Save a life.. (here, take your kid), then offender is so pissed he runs his yacht 20 miles wide open trying to sink it… here, take your kid, your Future, Your family.. I got NONE. Let me kill myself in peace. HERE, TAKE YOUR KID.

No, in reality, it doesn’t. This is because the vast majority of sex offenses (over 95 per cent) are committed by first time offenders whom are not registered.

Sorry, but no. That’s not the way our constitution works. Our constitution speaks of “inalienable rights” of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. that means that man does not have the right to take away these rights under any circumstances.

Concerned Parent you are wrong on so many levels. First anyone convicted of a felony in Floriduh is required to give a DNA sample so law enforcement already has it you don’t need to know. The man next door who sexually abused a child may have been a 19 year old boy who had relations with his 14 year old girlfriend but he’s 40 now trying to support his wife and children but finds it difficult to do so. The incidents you speak of account for 1-3 % of the total population of 1 million. And just so you know it’s not the next door neighbor who is required to register that you should be concerned about it’s your childs teacher clergyman sports coach martial arts instructor and good old uncle Bob and aunt Jane none of whom are on the registry. The fact is 95-97% of registrants do not re-offend. One more thing there are 100 ways to be placed on the registry not all are rapists

@Concerned parent:

You are wrong. Your short little paragraph shows you know nothing about Registries.

First off, Registries obviously aren’t needed or beneficial. If you disagree, you can answer just a few very, very simple, short questions for everyone. This is what the questions are about – pretend that you have one neighbor who is listed on your glorious Registries and one neighbor who is not.

The first question that you must answer is – which of them has committed more $EX crimes?

The second – which of them is most dangerous today?

Last question – if you were actually concerned about children, with regards to safety, would you be able to treat the two people any differently?

If you can answer just those basic, trivial questions correctly, you’ll be on your way to knowing why the Registries are not just worthless, but why they are much, much worse.

Regarding the rest of your nonsense ….

People who are listed on your glorious Registries (i.e. People Forced to Register, PFRs) are around people, including children, all the time and those people have no idea that the people are listed. It is easy for PFRs to have close and frequent relationships and contact with people who have no idea they are listed. Easy. I’ve personally seen hundreds of cases. Your magic hit list might ostracize a bunch of “neighbors”, but that’s it. Sorry. It’s trivial to never interact with those “neighbors”. Like they don’t exist.

Probably the dumbest, least informed thing you said was, “The police use this registry …”.

No competent law enforcement (LE) agency uses the Registries for help when “children go missing”. Competent LE knows that is a complete waste of time. They may say that they use it, and they may go around and talk to PFRs, but that is ONLY to placate the brainless, clueless public (i.e. people like you). They know it is a complete distraction from actually solving any crime. Competent LE will do nothing with the Registries except put on a show. They WILL use it to try to get themselves more $$$$$$$$$$ though. The love that part.

And really, how dumb do you have to be to think that would be useful? The Registries are a constant reminder for PFRs that if you intend to commit an anonymous crime (and most $EX crimes certainly are not even anonymous, duh!), you need to do it far from where you are Registered. Personally, if I were going to kidnap someone, it would be 500+ miles from my home and where OTHER people are Registered. Then your braintrust LE can run around and interview/harass all of those PFRs there to put on a show for people like you.

Anyway, I’m sorry but you people very, very quickly fatally broke your Registries toy. Like 2 decades ago. If the Registries had ONLY been you as you people originally lied they would be – so that people were “informed” – AND all the 100+ other Registries that MUST now exist did, then maybe, possibly, conceivably, perhaps, Registries could be acceptable to humans and decent Americans. But the Registries are faaaaaaaaaaaaaar from that and it will never be fixed.

So there has to be war. I promise you that as long as Registries exist there will be plenty of people who are ensuring that they are useless and that Registry Supporters/Terrorists are suffering real world, legal consequences for it.

Message to Registry Supporters/Terrorists: Sic semper tyrannis. Here’s a famous quote for you – “You think you can be ruthless? Let’s see how you like it when the fighting is brought to you.”

I bet you don’t even believe your own postings, Concerned Parent. Forgo all rights? Do you realize that approximately one-third of offenders are themselves juveniles? Which of those juveniles’ rights would you like to permanently remove? Didn’t think so.

But you should be concerned, because statistically, your child is more likely to be PLACED on a registry than be harmed by someone who’s already been convicted of it. And that WOULD harm your child, and their psychological development, considerably.

You have a false sense of security, Concerned Parent. The registry does not accomplish any of the goals you think it does. And we’ve known that for a long time.

You actually believe the police have successfully used a registry to help them find missing children? Puh-leeze. It won’t even tell you who’s at risk to abuse your children!

I would agree with you, that someone who has abused a child, should not be working with children! But that has nothing to do with registries, now does it?

So good luck keeping your children safe from abuse, with that attitude.