It’s not often you see prosecutors and public defenders working together on the same team.
But Thursday night, representatives from both groups spoke before state lawmakers in a joint effort to reform the law around Colorado’s juvenile sex offender registry list.
“There are demonstrable…effects for children listed on this public registry right now,” said Amanda Gall, a Sexual Assault Resource Prosecutor at the Colorado District Attorney’s Council.
“This bill strikes a balance between public access and privacy for these children.”
HB-1079 was passed out of the House Judicial Committee Thursday. It calls for several changes, including:
- Limiting public access to the juvenile sex offender registry
- Limiting lifetime registration for sexual offenses committed when the offender was a juvenile
- Giving judges more discretion at the time of sentencing a juvenile to decide whether or not to exempt the offender from the registry, based on an evaluation of the offender and recommendation from the evaluation team
- If the juvenile offender moves to Colorado from another state, and the juvenile offender is no longer required to register in that prior state, he or she would not have to register in Colorado
Look I am like this , I believe that if you or I or anyone else for that matter has to register for life then why not the teenager also hey my life got ruined then why not theirs. I’ve been fighting my case for 17 yrs now and I have proof that I was not required to register but South Carolina and Florida says otherwise so why shouldn’t the kids who are doing the same thing I did to get on here be on the registry for life. They are no better than you or I so if they get a break then I or you or whoever else is in our shoes should be given the same opportunity. I’ll tell you this the federal government is the one who is funding the states sex offender list but not one state is “United “ in the laws that pertain to the sex offender registry
When I started reading your comment, I wasn’t in agreement with you. When I finished reading it, I am in total agreement with you.
I agree that what they are doing should apply to adults as well. If you read the entire article, every word stated applies to adults, and they are admitting that it is punishment being on the registry. Now for some judges and justices to say that. I hope Florida is listening.
I was 20 years old when I was charged as an adult for a charge from when I was 16. I was thrown to the dogs and took a plea deal. Not knowing that 30 years later at 46 I’d still be dealing with this. I hope they dont make any kid go through what I did. I never imagined as a kid I’d have to expieenece the things I did. I hope they seriously stop destroying lives. You would think this would easily be common sence but yet law makers, and prosecutors still continue to destroy young peoples lives.
Good Day…
Wow, because I met a Young Man who was charged with having consensual sex when he was 16yrs old and she 15yrs old and that lasted until he was 19 and her 17 etc…..then at 21yrs old he got slammed….5 years in and 43 years of SO Probation in the State of Florida, Lakeland County!….., Yes, 43 years of sex offender probation in FLORI-DUH!
His Church turned him in….he is the nicest and most respectful person One would ever meet..but he got screwed!..no pun intended!
Minors should never and I mean never be on a registry, than comes eliminating the registry for adults.
Happy FunDay Sunday!….if You can Refute the following, please let Me Know…Make it a Great Day!
SORNA IS CRIMINAL PUNISHMENT and VIOLATES WHAT OUR FOREFATHER’S HELD STRONG: TO NEVER SINGLE OUT a specific category of offenders based on UNCONSTITUTIONAL PUNISHMENT. SORNA, the program, HAS metastasized and HAS defaced some of our most treasured rights: VIOLATES DUE PROCESS AND FREEDOM OF SPEECH; CREATES BILLS OF ATTAINDER; VIOLATES EX POST FACTO; VIOLATES COMMERCE CLAUSE; FORM OF DOUBLE JEOPARDY; ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SEIZURE; VIOLATES EQUAL PROTECTION AND IS CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT.
I was talking with a local pastor who used to be a juvenile probation officer. He said during those times that he was amazed at the youth who would be under his supervision who were on the SO registry. Their actions were considered just ‘playing around’ when we were kids. Today we are willing to destroy a young person’s life over what comes down to ‘peanuts’ in the big scheme of things. Sometimes these events are done approvingly even though participants are underage. It’s crazy out of control.
Our country has become negatively obsessed with sex. And thanks to people like John Walsh, our obsession has now found its way to other countries, sadly.
I agree Maestro. And, I wonder if sex offender registries, all the latest crazy sex laws, and movements like MeToo are scaring innocent young men away from recreational sex. Is some entity(ies) lobbying extra hard to abolish any sex that doesn’t produce offspring?
Speaking of John Walsh…..
SORNA IS THE BIG LIE, CREATED BY ‘AMERICA’S MOST WANTED HYPOCRITE’, AN ALCOHOL AND COCAINE INFUSED JOHN WALSH of THE CLINTON NEWS NETWORK (CNN). In 1981 WALSH AND HIS WIFE REVE DROPPED OFF THEIR SON, ADAM, AT A SEARS MALL BECAUSE THEY WERE FLEEING FROM THEIR DRUG PUSHER AS THEY OWED THEM $10K IN ILLEGAL DRUG PURCHASES. THE DRUG DEALERS KIDNAPPED AND BEHEADED THE SON, ADAM, AND THREW HIM INTO A RIVER. FACTS ARE FACTS! AND SORNA WAS BORN! (THE GROSS MURDER HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SEXUAL PERVERSION IN ANY WAY) THE WALSH’S REFUSED TO TESTIFY TO ANYTHING IN COURT. JOHN WALSH IS ‘AMERICA’S MOST WANTED HYPOCRITE’
Where can this deep dark info be found?
Good Day!
Prison Legal News, Back in the Day, did a Marvelous Job of Unlocking the Truth…go to their website and you will see….
BTW, years ago I was at an Event wherein John Walsh was enjoying the festivities…when I found out that he was in attendance, I garnered a LEO to accompany me as I heckled the Hell out of this Liar, Trader and Hypocrite….he left without eating the dessert course, (He Missed the Bananas Foster)!…Oh Well!…Karma may be a Bitch!
https://www.upi.com/Archives/1983/11/11/Adam-Walsh-parents-lose-court-round/1022437374800/
“There are demonstrable…effects for children listed on this public registry right now,” said Amanda Gall, a Sexual Assault Resource Prosecutor at the Colorado District Attorney’s Council. There are also demonstrable…effects for those who magically become adults at 18 years of age listed on this public registry right now!!!!!
I wis there were “Like” buttons for comments on here.
Exactly right. It’s idiotic.
Decent people don’t support Registries. Easy to see.
Message to Registry Supporters/Terrorists: Sic semper tyrannis. “You think you can be ruthless? Let’s see how you like it when the fighting is brought to you.”