Do Harsh Laws on Sex Offender Homes Do Any Good?
Some 70 paroled child sex offenders, now living in a flimsy village of tents, cardboard boxes and rusty campers in an industrial zone just east of Miami International Airport, were told this month they had to find a new home yet again. Because most South Florida counties and cities have laws designed to keep them far from children, the options for moving are few and far between.
The forced nomadic existence creates a host of challenges for law enforcement agencies charged with keeping track of offenders. Those problems raise questions about the accuracy and effectiveness of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s sex offender registry, which was touted to inform the public about potential risks from sex predators. Studies suggest harsh living restrictions and registries have not been effective. A 2015 study of adult sexual offender management by the U.S. Department of Justice concluded that despite broad public support, residency restrictions may do more harm than good. Jill Levenson, a Barry University sociologist who conducted a similar study, concluded that residency restrictions are more likely to increase the number of times convicted offenders repeat a sex crime. Police lose track of hundreds of sex offenders.
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http://www.startribune.com/evers-vetoes-allowing-sex-offenders-to-live-near-schools/565348812/
https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2019/11/24/kentucky-state-police-investigating-sex-offender-scam/4290597002/
I am a free man. Release from criminal supervision more than 10 years ago, I believed my punishment was over. It’s not. In fact, with each passing year the penalties imposed for an offense committed more than 3 decades ago, so called Remedial Sanctions have become more restrictive and burdensome. More so than the original terms and conditions of probation.
With a wink and a nod from the Courts, this Frightening and High recidivism narrative is being used as justification for removing the safeguards of liberty. Simply re-classify what is punishment to remedial and poof constitutional protections that otherwise provided protection; Ex post facto, due process, double jeopardy, to name just a few, are no longer available to the sex offender
Am I a free man living in a free society or forever a Predator expected re-offend at every opportune moment?
Are ALL the 70 parolees really child sex offenders? Did they check all their paperwork or did they just make that sh!t up?
Either way the state has created something that will suck in everybody into the Registry. Including cops and politicians.
It would be a very ironic day when Ron Book gets sucked into the Registry over some drunken escapade with an underage hooker. Just a matter of time.
Tic-toc…
Yep, idiot legislators and their idiotic ideas. “We need you keep away but be accounted for but be completely unseen but we need to be able to see you when we need to but it has to be on our terms and within our jurisdiction but away from the city and parks and streets and public areas but yeah you’ll figure it out.”
Isn’t that what Australia was for? Or was that Auschwitz? Can’t remember.
On a less sarcastic note, just keep fighting the good fight people. You have to try to keep with it, these clowns are tripping over themselves and they know it. Fight smart. Be informed. Stay up-to-date with current events. Eventually it will be revealed just how stupid of an idea the registry was and how crooked the system became in its use.
And then one day the bill will come due. All that wasted man-power. All those wasted tax dollars. All those self-serving officials and politicians that tried to keep the big monster they created swept under the rug while they poured gas on the fire hoping no one would smell the smoke.