I agree with you. Non-contact CP should not be classified as a Tier III offense. In Floriduh it is a 3rd degree felony. We have no Tier system, but the SMART Office in DC, in their implementation review, classifies it as Tier I offense.

https://smart.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh231/files/media/document/florida.pdf

Here’s Californication’s implementation review

https://smart.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/xyckuh231/files/media/document/california-hny_0.pdf

Hey CherokeeJack. Nice to hear from ya.

For those who have no idea what we are joking about, I offer the following:
George Orwell (Pen name) wrote a dystopian novel about a socialist political revolution of animals on an English farm who rose up to overthrow their masters and take over the farm. At first all of the animals had equal rights, and those rights were clearly written on the end of the barn in big letters for all to see and read.
As time went on, the (rather intelligent) pigs took over until a tyrant boar rose up.
One of the 10 commandments on the end of the barn said, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL!”
By the end of the novel, one of the dismayed and saddened horses again reads this commandment on the end of the barn, but is pretty sure that it used to be different somehow.
The commandment now reads, “ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL! (BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS)”
Jeff
(Moral of the story, let’s not throw others under the bus in order to acheive our political aims)

JJJJ

Farm animals equal? Ok on the farm there are Cows(steak) and pigs(bacon). That is a toss up for me LOL

To make them equal I would need a porter house steak wrapped in bacon 🙂

Kathleen, with all due respect, we are all in this together.
Even the “worst of the worst” like me can change and grow and heal and move on as a peaceful, law-abiding citizen. I am proof of that.
There is no such thing as a “better” crime.
We are ALL on the registry, and the registry must end.
If Jim Crow laws (banishment, public shaming, crimes that are only crimes for a certain hated class, for instance) exist for any single person then they exist for all of us.

Do you remember author George Orwell’s lesson painted on the end of the barn?
It said, “All animals are equal (but some animals are more equal than other animals).”

Yes, Florida has a petition for removal after 25 years.
But for a great many of us, there is a carveout. Many of us can never petition for removal – ever.
The registry is wrong – plain and simple. It must go away in its entirety.