cnes that is a nightmare scenario for many of us.

If you have a chance, I hope you have the opportunity to connect with LRIDD (Legal Reform for the Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled), which was on a conference call with FAC not long ago.

Shame on you. My son is on the registry and he is intellectually and developmentally disabled. He’s like a child. Someone told him to expose himself and he did. He did not know it was wrong. I am the one who has to register him and I am the one who has to live the registry with him because he does not understand. There are many, many people who do not deserve this punishment.

And… I’ve been free of Massachusetts registry for at least 10 years… I went up for vacation last January, and when I called Mass SORB to tell them, the response was.. OK, you have not been required to register here for a long time, enjoy your visit..

Probation ended in November of 1999. The probation officer in CT said, you’ll come twice a month for a couple of months then once a month and after he first year I don’t want to see you, stay clean and build a good life. I move my probation back to Mass the same day to be near my family and kids and and BAM!!

Bill,

Here’s SORNA:

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2015-title42/pdf/USCODE-2015-title42-chap151-subchapI.pdf

Duration is discussed in § 16915.

I find it odd there’s no reduction for Tier II but there is for Tiers I and III.

You are not correct about the retroactive application of the change.

Anti-“sex trafficking” laws frequently are anti-prostitution laws that are passed under the guise of stopping sex trafficking.

Laura Book proposed an anti-“sex trafficking” law a year or two ago that would have created a public registry of johns who were convicted of having sex with consenting adult prostitutes. The bill actually passed one of the 2 legislative chambers, but thankfully didn’t quite become law. I forget if the bill was rejected by the other chamber, or if the legislative session expired before they could vote on it.

In theory, if there were actually such thing as a national sex offender registry, and the national sex offender registry had longer periods of registration than some state registries, there wouldn’t be an issue here.

The problem is that there’s no such thing as a national sex offender registry. There are federal laws that set up a framework for sex offenders the federal government recommends states follow, but it’s ultimately up to states to follow that framework. And most states aren’t following that framework (the Adam Walsh Act) nowadays.

If you’ve completed your time on the state offender list, where the hell are you supposed to register under this ruling? And what registry would you then be listed on? This is imprisoning people for breaking a law that’s literally impossible to follow.