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
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.
The only distinction I see (and my biggest problem with) with differentiating between juvenile and adult registrants is that the overwhelming majority of juvenile registrants are there for matters much more suitable to be dealt with by parents than the state – sexting, streaking, sex with other juveniles, and so on.
History has shown that the government fails to fix any problem it addresses, and even exacerbates it, more often than not. Why would anyone in their right mind trust the government with child rearing?
How is it a punishment for juveniles and not for others? Hmmm
Amen ! Preach it brother. Funny how things in life are altered depending on the situation to fulfill agendas
Another thing people don’t realize is what is happening for the juvenile offenders is a bad thing long term for normal registrants. They are removing our ability to fight back emotionally the effects of the registry. They use emotions to make the public hate all registrants but now people are seeing the negative effects to “children” so working on eliminating them from the registry. Then your only left with the scum of the earth….. long term its bad that they are progressing this direction.
What about those lacking proper judgement skills even at an older adult age? There are many persons with autism (or otherwise mentally challenged) that are technically adults, but …well, people VARY.
I believe that ageism (like any sort of registry) is almost always wrong. It implies that the older one is, the less worth they should have.
Would love to know how exactly it is punishment for juveniles but apparently not adults. Allegedly not understanding the consequence of an action due to age shouldn’t have any relation to if something is punishment or not. So at 16 its punishment but at 18 its suddenly not?
Yup, especially this from page 7.
” Juvenile sex offenders must adhere to the same
registration requirements as adult sex offenders except that a
juvenile’s sex offender status is not posted on the Colorado Bureau
of Investigation’s website. ”
That is really the only difference. Juveniles serve the same punishment as adults do, but they just aren’t posted for all to see on the registry.
If it is a punishment for juveniles to bear registration requirements, I don’t see why it is not a punishment for adults as well. Keyword being punishment since it is the issue here.
Ts, I am totally in agreement with you, i believe that the law is the law , but oh wait now some legislators kid or judges kid or a kid period is having to register for life , oh it’s punishment for them but not us who has been on the registry for are allotted time frame even though we were not required to register and how the law change so it’s retroactive for us but not kids sexting,or having under age sex, but oh when we did are crime it was a tremendous horrifying act on a child even though that “child” was consensual in doing so let alone “16” but it’s ok for it now? That’s some straight bull. I say this if it’s a lifetime registry for us then the kids should be lifetime also!
The case against registration of juveniles, particularly for a life term, is even more clear-cut than the case against public registries generally. Registration laws cause even more damage to a juvenile than to an adult, even though the juvenile brain is still rapidly developing and open to rehabilitation.
I’m surprised it’s taking courts this long.
I disagree that the effect to a juvenile is any more then to an adult as far as registration goes. Once they are adults they are dealing with the same registry we are. How can it be any more or less punitive because of the age they were put on it at. Its either punishment to everyone or no one. They have the same requirements as adults not any more strict.
It’s more punitive to have to spend ones’ adolescence or pre-adolescence on the registry and endure the associated infamy. At that age, one can barely even process what it’s supposed to mean, and it’s an obstacle to healthy development.
…though I see that in Colorado, juvenile registration was not public, so at least there was that.
Jacob, you are correct but why is or was it to make us register for life? It wasn’t so if we should then so should they it is only fair for the law to be “ retroactive “ now maybe some one higher up will say hey if the juveniles get off from registration for life then why shouldn’t we be able to do so, I mean if it’s ok for them why shouldn’t it be ok for the adult offender? I mean hell some of us the law didn’t even require us to register but then the law changed and they made it retroactive next thing you know you have to register so it doesn’t matter if you do the crime then whether your a juvenile or a adult you should have to pay the piper I’m sorry if that pisses some people off but hell if it was ok for them to put us on it then it should be ok for them to be on it also!