The State Department says that change, which it announced in a Federal Register notice seeking public comment last month, is “in accordance with” the International Megan’s Law (IML), which requires “unique passport identifiers” for “covered sex offenders.” Although that 2016 law is ostensibly aimed at preventing “child sex tourism,” it applies to many people who have never engaged in such conduct or shown any propensity to do so. The proposed passport affirmation sweeps even more broadly, and it is apt to have a chilling effect on international travel by Americans who are required to register as sex offenders—a category that includes nearly 800,000 people, many of whom have never committed crimes anything like those targeted by the IML.

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Bruce Cameron, a sex offender treatment provider, says some registered persons have told him that doing prison was easy, but being on the registry is a life sentence.  He is in favor of deregulating registered persons who are low risk.  That way resources for law enforcement could be freed up to monitor only those who truly belong on the list.  This is what would help to keep the communities safer.

Unfortunately, the sheriff interviewed is skeptical of a registrant’s ability to change.  I have thousands of people forced to register in Florida that I would like for him to meet, many with an offense that was years/decades ago.

The sheriff is concerned with the underreporting of sex crimes.  There is some research showing that is true in some cases (but not all) before the arrest, but after the sentence is completed, I can find no such research.  As always, the sheriff offered no research to back up his statements.  

Reporter Mariah Medina was fair in her representation of both sides of this issue.

Mariah Medina’s email address:  mamedina@sbgtv.com

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In an interview with Glenna Milberg of Local10 News WPLG, Book gave a most impressive interview, giving plenty of documentation to show how he planned on achieving this goal.  Again, though, he never addresses the homeless problem for registered persons in the Miami/Dade area, primarily because that would require rolling back the 2500-foot residence restriction that he lobbied to pass in the Miami/Dade area and throughout the state/country.

Why won’t Mr. Book discuss the elephant in the room?

Email address for Glenna Milberg: gmilberg@wplg.com

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• Research suggests that pedophilia is determined in the womb and is neurological.
• “Not all people who sexually abuse children are pedophiles; some pedophiles never abuse children.”
• “Anna Salter, a psychologist, author, and internationally recognized expert who has done over 500 evaluations of high-risk sex offenders,…says ‘Pedophiles may not have control over the fact that they are attracted to kids, but they are responsible for whether they do or don’t act on it.”

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