Comments on: AZ: Arizona Registry Reform back on track https://floridaactioncommittee.org/az-arizona-registry-reform-back-on-track/ Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:10:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Dustin https://floridaactioncommittee.org/az-arizona-registry-reform-back-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-22966 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 20:10:00 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=10633#comment-22966 “Reforming” the registry is pointless. It’s been “reformed” numerous times over the last 20+ years, and no amendment has ever accomplished one single thing toward the registry’s stated purposes – public safety and recidivism reduction. Sex crime rates and recidivism haven’t changed since the registry was enacted, and nearly all recidivism is for offenses based on or created by the registry itself.

This proposal is nothing more than an empty effort to appear reasonable to registry opponents. Very few will meet the criteria and even if they do, it’s still subject to the discretion of Arizona’s judges, few (if any) of whom would ever seriously consider relieving anyone of registry obligations, regardless of circumstance. Given the unusual criteria proposed, I can’t help but wonder if they were tailored to a specific registrant somehow related to one of Bower’s friends, family members, or campaign supporters.

Bowers may as well propose a law that makes it illegal in Arizona for the temperature to rise above 105 degrees before June. That proposal would probably have more effect than the registry “reform” he’s pushing for now.

]]> By: RM https://floridaactioncommittee.org/az-arizona-registry-reform-back-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-22965 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 16:56:02 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=10633#comment-22965 But it’s a start–the beginning of a move in the other direction. First California and then Connecticut. A few state legislatures are beginning to reverse two decades of draconian laws. We can’t expect 20 years of bad legislation to be undone overnight.

]]> By: JZ https://floridaactioncommittee.org/az-arizona-registry-reform-back-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-22964 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 15:14:53 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=10633#comment-22964 This would provide relief for some who got caught up in stings or consensual underage sex, but, sadly, if your offense was NON-CONTACT possession of child pornography, you are excluded from relief:

“10. THE DEFENDANT WAS NOT CONVICTED OF A VIOLATION OR ATTEMPTED VIOLATION OF SECTION …. OR 13-3553.”

https://www.azleg.gov/ars/13/03553.htm

This illustrates, once again, that legislators like to punish those who they think will live out their fantasies. Punishment for a thought crime. Welcome to 1984 and Minority Report.

]]> By: Flcitzen https://floridaactioncommittee.org/az-arizona-registry-reform-back-on-track/comment-page-1/#comment-22963 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 14:02:38 +0000 https://floridaactioncommittee.org/?p=10633#comment-22963 If I read this correctly you could not have done prison time on the charge. If that’s the case that eliminates most.

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