Children of Parents on Sex Offender Registry Are Collateral Damage of Registry
There is not doubt that people find out about people who are on the sex registry. And that will include friends and acquaintances of their children. It is also true that many registered sex offenders have families and are not threats to society.
Hence, the damage to their children is real, because they are ostracized and condemned or shunned because of their parent.
This is a very difficult issue. There are, of course, true human menaces, and the point of the sex offender registry is to protect children and others from potential danger.
And yet, at the same time, the registry causes danger, or at least humiliation, to the registrant’s children and family and often to the registrant him or herself.
It is curious too. People who are arguably equally or more dangerous, like paroled murderers, home invaders, kidnappers, violent felons, burglars, manslaughterers, robbers, drug dealers, drunk drivers who ran over and killed someone, are on no registry and could live next door to you without your knowing.
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Sarah, got it. I can’t believe all the comments, both negative and positive that the subject got. I will have to sit aside some time to read them all. We have so many people in society who are totally clueless about what makes up a sex offense. Mention the word and Jack the Ripper immediately comes into view. FAC, NARSOL, and others have a big job trying to educate a public that is so out of touch with reality.
Where are Sarah’s comments? I would like to read them.
Click on the blue word “source” above at the end of the FAC post. After the article comes up, scroll WAY down to the bottom of the page below the “about the author” section and you will see the comments.
My comments did make it on the second time but had to be done as a reply to Sandy Rozek.
I tried commenting this morning –they were not published. I just tried to post them as a reply to Sand Rozek — still would not take. Very frustrating.
My comments were published after a few hours. One set of them, at least (there were two).
SarahF your comments are there now.
A masterpiece, I must say— no wonder it took them forever to screen it.
http://sosen.org/blog/2019/08/12/government-sanctioned-terrorism-for-over-half-a-million-american-children.html
I found this interesting. It’s about a Florida Sheriff who put a “Blue Lives Matter” flag on his own property. Not sure if FL is one of those states that posts “sex offender” signs on people’s property but the response from the Home Owners Association would seem to make doing that “illegal”…? “No lawn ornaments or free standing flag poles….” couldn’t it also be argued that a signage about a sex offender is the same damn thing?
The homeowners association sent a “violation notice” to Sean Kennedy that stated, “During a recent inspection, it was noted that you have an improper flag displayed on your property. While we support your patriotism, the American flag does need to be the traditional American flag. No lawn ornaments or freestanding flagpoles shall be placed or maintained on any Lot without the prior approval of the Architectural Review Committee. Please have this violation corrected within 14 days from the date of this letter. If the violation is not corrected within this timeframe, further action will be taken.”
Full article https://www.dailywire.com/news/retired-florida-sheriffs-deputy-flies-blue-lives-matter-flag-hoa-tells-him-to-pull-it-down
I believe there is a Florida Law that states HOA cannot outlaw flagpoles provided they meet county/state regulations. There might be height restrictions from the State/County/FAA but that is it. A friend of mine ran into this with his HOA. They can, however, limit the flags you fly to probably the US and State flags.