Bill to Create Tiered Registry in Missouri
The State of Missouri is considering creating a tiered registry that would allow some with less serious offenses to petition for removal. It’s a move that some other states are considering or have implemented.
The bill can be read here: https://legiscan.com/MO/text/SB655/2018
UPDATE: The governor did not sign this bill.
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Hope they don’t follow after Michigan, their tier system does NOT work! Over 40,000 registrants are incorrectly “tiered”!!!!!!
You are right Karen. They leave it up to registrants to hire an attorney and file in court to prove errors before they will ever correct anything. Even just 10 years on the registry is enough to do permanent damage to your life.
As long as it doesn’t do damage to their political careers they couldn’t care less.
If FAC, civil Attorneys and us can convince Florida GOP that a Tierred Registry will cut costs without affecting LEA jobs and still protect the public it can happen. A tierred Registry in Florida would reduce the registry in half. It would cut policing and compliance issues. It would save non violent offenders from a Lifetime of public disgrace and depression many times leading to more serious Offenses. Similiar Florida Bills have been rejected mainly based on judicial concerns. Let us Floridian Registrants step up to the plate now and get this obtainable Bill done! JEV
Great for the “show me state”! First California and now Missouri. Both former automatic lifer states.
Florida is going to be the last state and ti will be another decade unless they are sued aggressively and/or the public gets EDUCATED about what the registry and the fact that it doesn’t work.
Also such things like the fact that half the people on the Florida registry don’t even live in the state – among other facts that I point out at my site SexOffenderTruth.com in an attempt to humanize the registry by giving it a different common sense perspective!
I think everyone should actually go and read the bill before applauding it. The title of the bill is, “Bill Title: Removes the statutes of limitation on prosecutions involving sexual offenses requiring registration and sexual offenses against children.” That ought to tell you that this bill is not really designed to offer much relief to registered sex offenders. Even the lowest tier would still require the offender to be registered for 15 years. There is a provision allowing an offender to petition for removal after 10 years. However, that is only for a very tiny proportion of cases involving minor offenses (such as (b) Sexual conduct where no force or threat of force was directed toward the victim, the victim was at least fourteen years of age, and the offender was not more than four years older than the victim at the time of the offense), and such a petition is by no means automatically granted. If you go before a hard-nosed judge, he will likely deny the petition. You also have to notify the prosecutor if you file such a petition, and that prosecutor will likely oppose it as well. As I read it, this bill is just an attempt by Missouri to conform their registry to federal standards in order to qualify for federal funding. Michigan’s tiered system does nothing more than allow some offenders to report to law enforcement less often than others each year. Nothing here to get excited about.
The bill offers significant relief. Not in all cases, but in many cases.
In this bill, possession of CP is a Tier I which will offer relief to many. Five years off, is significant.
If you are a Florida registrant 15 years with a opportunity to petition in 10 years is a whole lot better than 25 to Life!
Florida should remove those who have long finished their sentence – probation, court ordered therapy or do an Individual risk assessment when petitioning for the court for removal. Or something along those lines. It would save a boat load of $$$ and help Law Enforcement focus more on high risk offenders as well as the public.
just seen that the Orlando
s police chief’s brother was arrested for some very serious sex charges with a child under 12 if he gets convicted i wonder he will have more pull criminal ron book or a brother of a criminal