Comments on: Appreciation to commenters on this opinion piece discrediting Lauren Book

By: Goat Head

Goat Head — Tue, 24 Jan 2017 20:26:14 +0000

What an awesome letter. It is encouraging to read something like this from someone who knows the truth. It’s too bad that the Florida legislature won’t listen to someone like her, and instead listens to people using scare tactics for their own personal gain.

By: J

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 23:10:09 +0000

Lauren and Ron know their Time Is Up.

By: mark

mark — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 16:23:00 +0000

this is the same way they got the international megans law passed a politician used false statistics shouted from his soapbox surrounded by soccer moms who have nothing better to do than scream about something they don’t know anything about and believed by the feeble minded

By: edie billings

edie billings — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 13:45:02 +0000

Kudos to Jean Zeeb for finally speaking out against Ms.Book who has had a personal vendetta against any one convicted of any sexual offense, She has used her personal experience to create a living hell for sex-offenders regardless of the severity of their crimes and made it nearly impossible for many offenders to turn their lives around and become productive citizens due to her constant drive to further punish all sex-offenders.

Ms. Book should consider getting a bit of therapy herslf to help uunburden herself of the anger which she is showing toward thousands who don’t deserve to be the target of her witchhunts..

By: Jo

Jo — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:22:02 +0000

Another example of how sex offender registries is unjust is when police departments hire &create special units to search and stalk others on the worldwide web acting as minors in chat rooms, personal ads, social media and the list goes on in order to “catch sex deviants” who are what they deem as high risk of commiting a sex crime and they arrest them. When in a hand full of cases I have heard the person did not go to meet the so called minor who isnt even a minor but an undercover cop who is of consenting age. And yet they were still arrested and labled a sex offender for having sexual conversations with an adult who claimed to be a minor. It’s NOT fair!! They need to redue registries and break it down into levels in which all other crimes are already broken down and categorized into. Why isnt people who commit murder, child abuse or home invasion on a registry? People convicted of sex crimes no matter how serve or piety the crime maybe Are ALL still viewed and labeled as monsters and we as a society cast them away as leopards. Who no matter how long jail/prison/probation sentenced they served and all the obsticales money and hoops they had to pay and do in order to be “free” and to be able to join the rest of society . sex offenders who “commit sexcrimes”are the only ones labeled for all the public to know and see all their personal information and criminal history. They are also discriminated against the most in today’s workforce, living situations, conditions after serving their sentences and as to where they can and cant live and who they can live with. Its unjust, unfair and discrimination. No one should be treated as leopards after serving their time for yheir crimes. What kind of message does that send from us as a society who is so against discrimination, racisim, unjustice and for fighting in order to make sure we all have fair and equal rights and opportunities as everyone else does to be our best and succeed in life and live the best. Life we possibly can. And yet we are still in ancient times when it comes to this issue and the criminal system and those WHO HAVE BEEN AND ARE REFORMED RIGHTS??

By: Al

Al — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 02:44:14 +0000

How encouraging to find a therapist with the courage to publish the truth! If our legislators would read such articles, perhaps fairer legislation might result.