BenFranklin

And the reality is, we will NOT commit another sex crime, however, we do have a high chance of getting arrested. Hear me out, not because we messed up, but because of the ongoing new add-ons to the registry making it almost impossible sometimes to comply. Especially with all the retroactively applied laws, rules and ordinances that sometimes are forced on all of us.

And although some of them are not applied to existing registrants, it is only a matter of time before they find ways to get around that. For example, the post FAC made about internet identifiers. One little misstep on that and your clean record is wiped out. Traps, trips potholes are getting harder and harder to avoid.

I’m pre 1997. I like your comment. It holds logic and reason.
Broke my heart to be retroactively forced to re register when I moved to Florida.
Broke me mentally and emotionally and financially.
Verbal death threat from neighbors really touched my soul.
I look back at my sentence and it said 10 years registry. That was hard enough. Now I’m lifetime registry. It doesn’t make sense.
0 recidivism and 0 thoughts of any criminal behavior for me. I bet I’m not the only one who feels/thinks the same way.

Tearful

I cannot believe this but when my crime happened, I was in my 20s, now in my 60s. That tells you something. It was late 20s but still that’s a 4-decade spread and yet still being told all of us are dangerous and just itching to re-offend.

An elephant may or may not charge at you if you piss it off, maybe they should be on a registry, JUST in case.

There you go i too was way before 97′ We, under my logic would be free men.

Tearful

I was pre 1997 by 6 years, but yet, here I am 29 years later still on the registry. Crime was 1991 so that was 35 years ago, come next month.

In the interest of steering this discussion back on topic, let’s all agree that drug reclassification is very different from registry removal.

Seems pretty easy to me. Also would free up LE to chase the bad guys and the govt to focus more on preventing offenses through education and community policing of teachers, coaches, ministers, family members etc where we know 95% of new offenses happen.

Once again my opinion only.

CJ, I think he was being sarcastic.

Ben

Not to at all be a jerk but where in the Hell did you come up with that. A HUGE different between allowing legal pot and releasing 100,000 people off of the registry. The U.S population would burn down entire cities if that happened.

Only a powerful and important judge and ruling is going to end this. They could at least give us a life line and start with those like me and others that were “Retroactively” applied to the registry.

Finally note, correct me if I am wrong but where did you even come up with that? Did you hear him or his staff or a comment online of him throwing in the possibility to give us relief? Not even sure he has that power. Congress would have to sign off on it, or possibly a binding executive order?

Actually I think the President is ready to repeal SORNA and end the registry.
The President signed executive order to de criminalize THC.

Why not end the registry?