CO: Controversial Bill Surrounding Sex Offenders To Get First Committee Hearing
The council says the bill would allow the parole board to release people convicted of violent sex crimes as long as they’re signed up for community-based treatment and are considered a manageable risk.
It would also prevent treatment providers from limiting an offenders contact with children without a court order and would create a new risk-based sex offender registry. A nine-person board would decide who should be on the registry. Police and prosecutors would no longer get a vote.
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This is great news!! In fact,anything that can help sex offenders return to a normal life is great news. I have been on the registry in Florida for a total of 11 years now,and I still haven’t seen or talked to anyone yet! No Judge, No Caseworker or Review Board!!! Only just one person at the courthouse,a female FDLE officer who could’ve been having a day or holding onto something that may have happen to her or a family member in the past. Unfortunately, this is taking place in the State of Colorado and not the State of Florida. where it is much needed! Not only do we need a risk-based registry,but also a nine-person hearing and review board committee where the accuser can be present to dispute and defend themselves.
We don’t need a “risk based registry.” We need no registry. Find one single crime outside of registry violations that the registry played any role in investigating. If you can, find one single thing that was on the registry that wasn’t already available though NCIC or the state counterparts that feed it.
After that, explain how the registry hindered the few and far between sexual recidivists.
Further, to be a reasonably accurate “risk-based” registry, it would have to include every single person that has never been arrested for a sex crime because 95+ percent of new sex crimes are committed by current non-registrants.
I remember an old CSI episode where a family attempted to cover the death of the youngest daughter by pinning it on someone they randomly picked out of the registry. I can’t help but wonder how many times that has actually happened.
Cali is just now moving to a Tiered Registry, but this Colorado idea sounds soooo much better. Imagine, a Registry based on actual risk level! How truly revolutionary!! 👍🏻
While I don’t agree with the registry on any level, a risk based approach to determine if and for how long someone should be on the registry would be a welcome change. There is no reason for everyone in Florida to be on the registry for 25 years to life with no regard to any other factors. Most first time offenders should not be on it longer than their probation or sentence.
I also agree Law Enforcement is not the group to make these decisions. I am not sure who should be on these boards but I know what the answer will be if its only FDLE employees.
Who would be in the board you ask? Here are a few possibilities:
Lobbyists
Lawmakers
ITM group
I agree with the idea of having a risk based registry being far better than a mandatory. But consider the possibilities of who might be placed in charge and the politics surrounding/within it…
Caveat Emptor and all that.
Do any lobbyists or lawmakers sit on any existing state SOR boards?
As for who should be on the Florida Board Committee, if it should ever come to this?? (1) Three (3) Blacks(3) Whites(3) Others. (2)Three(3) Faith-Based,(3)Doctor’s and (3) ex-felon that is no longer on the sex offenders registry.
The problem with a “risk based approach” is that everyone will be considered a heightened risk by default. Sheer numbers will prevent any meaningful assessment and in the end, nothing will change. Tiering was supposed to be effective too, wasn’t it? Some states have been doing it for years, and it hasn’t made that much difference.
Floriduhha is also zero tolerance. That bill is CO. Not here
Indiana done a similar thing. Only they left it up to the Department of corrections and they labeled damn near everyone as a predator even those convicted of urinating in public. Florida’s sex offender registration might be stricter but Indiana sex offender laws are 0 tolerance and not retroactive unless it’s to add more to the registry. Consider yourself lucky if you dont live here
I just moved to Indiana and have found all my interactions to be pleasant. I can vote here. Take my kid to a park. I guess it’s up to the individual to determine. I’m not saying I’ll live here forever, but so far it’s not bad
A non-mandatory, risk-based registry!
While far from perfect, light years ahead of FL, even to be discussing it.