Comments on: Experts want states to stop prosecuting teens for consensual sexting

By: SO

SO — Tue, 23 Apr 2019 00:40:21 +0000

Experts need to be in on these bills the determine the consequences of law like on our familys, on the victims, and will this help or harm. I mean think of the harm its gonna do when little kids looking at pictures of bad people hanging on the hotel wall that live close by. It will affect each differently long term. Society has tried to protect itself by extremes and to me taking a step back with this whole thing.

By: Rome

Rome — Fri, 19 Apr 2019 21:28:45 +0000

“Fears that sexting represents an increased sexualization of teens in society do not appear justified because sexual intercourse and certain risky sexual behaviors have actually decreased over the last 2 decades. There are 22 million 13 to 17-year-olds in the United States. Smartphone ownership or access now stands at 95% of all teens, a 22% increase from 2014 to 2015 according to the most recent report, and the average age of acquisition is 10.3 years. If ∼15% of teens are sending sexts and 30% are receiving them in the United States, that would amount to 3.3 million sending sexts and 6.6 million receiving sexts, an overwhelming number if prosecutions are to occur. From pure numbers alone, consensual sexting appears to now represent a common adolescent behavior in the digital era that does not warrant prosecution.“
Strasburger VC, Zimmerman H, Temple JR, et al. Teenagers, Sexting, and the Law. Pediatrics. 2019;143(5):e20183183

By: Capt Charles Munsey Jr. USN Ret

Capt Charles Munsey Jr. USN Ret — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:46:53 +0000

Yelling “FIRE” in a crowded theater when no fire exists is not protected freedom of speech. I have always gone by the saying…”my freedom ends where the other person’s nose begins”. Conveying harm or a threat of harm was never intended by our Founding Fathers to be ‘freedom of speech’. Threats on a T-shirt are no different than racist comments on a T-shirt. A civil society cannot permit such acts.

By: Florida Action Committee

Florida Action Committee — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:19:31 +0000

In reply to sarah.

Sarah – can you send a picture to legal@floridaactioncommittee.org? We can use that as an example of the hatred and threats directed at registrants.
There are limits to freedom of speech – if he made a threat to an identifiable registrant, it might not be seen as “free speech”

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 20:17:24 +0000

I understand my nephew in Ca has changed his profile picture on Facebook to him holding a t shirt that says KILL YOUR LOCAL SEX OFFENDER I don’t want to look at it. Would this be freedom of speech?

By: Capt Charles Munsey Jr. USN Ret

Capt Charles Munsey Jr. USN Ret — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:29:11 +0000

The fastest way to screw up a situation is to get it involved with today’s paranoia driven legal system. I speak from experience.