CO: Lifetime registration for Juveniles is “Punishment”
The Colorado Sex Offender Registration Act (CSORA), sections 16-22-101 to -115, C.R.S. 2018, requires that juveniles who are twice adjudicated for unlawful sexual behavior must register as sex offenders for life. In this Eighth Amendment challenge to CSORA, a division of the court of appeals, with one judge dissenting, holds that CSORA’s lifetime registration requirement is a punishment as it applies to juveniles.
06.20.2019 CO COA People in Interest of T.B._Juvenile Registry_Cruel and Unusual
2019-17sc66_06.17.2019_People In the Interest of T.B_
Discover more from Florida Action Committee (FAC)
Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email.
It took a second sexual offense before T.B. was required to register for life…interesting.
The elephant in the room is that everyone knows the registry is punishment. The problem is lawmakers are only concerned with their public image and the next election so they make laws based on people’s worst fears to instill a false sense of security, thus increasing their chances of re-election.
Until more good people can stand up, without fear of retribution, to these idiots, nothing will change on the scale needed to reverse this fear-mongering juggernaut. I know there is some hope, but our small victories come at a glacial pace while new and more onerous laws are being crafted and implemented every year.
I do thank God for what I have, but Amerikka’s treatment of registered citizens and their families is deplorable and would not be tolerated on other class of citizen.
I mentioned earlier this is part of the problem. They are narrowing the registry so NO ONE will stand up against it. They are taking the banner cases and changing it to take that arguement away. Leaving only the scum of the universe on the registry.
I don’t think that’s the purpose of removing juveniles from the registry.
I have less faith in government then you I guess. They are addressing one of the cases that the registry has opponents to remove those opponents. Get enough of the blatant problems fixed and everyone can ignore those on the registry as the non-humans that they are. If you think the registry is anything but a way for the government to maintain control on fear your not paying close enogh attention.
Anything that you violate that carries a criminal prosecution , jail time etc is punishment. Failure to signal gets you a ticket and you pay a fine. Failure to register can send you to prison for the rest of your life. On what planet does a judge not understand that? The same goes for expo facto, how can those of us who did our time for crimes 3 decades ago are having to register after the fact? There will come a point where 40% of the U.S population is on the SO registry if no one can ever be removed. This is another reason they do not want felons to vote and when they passed the law they excluded us, another discrimination violation that is unconstitutional but we know the judges do what they want not what is right.