Candy

Yes

I worked in law enforcement before my arrest (but had left before the incident took place due to major medical issues that conflicted with my duties)

I had never been arrested before or since. It has been 31 years since all that happened. Not so much as a speeding ticket in 31 years. Of course the nay sayers always use the line “Oh you just haven’t been caught” routine.

I messed up, I did my time 10 times over but the registry was never a factor until they pass the law as I was getting released. The next day I was home I had to go and sign up for a lifetime achievement award that keeps on giving every time I have to go register again.

There are never any changes and I look the same as I did the time before, so much so they do not even change my photo as it is wasting tax payers money. I zombie walk through the questions. No new vehicles, no new address, no arrests, no new email address Blah blah blah blah.

We are graced by the presence and commentary of our troll, Val Parkworst.

To quote the great David Byrne, “Watch out, you might get what you’re after”

I agree with CherokeeJack, there are many forced to register now that were sentenced long before Megan’s Law existed. I often wonder how many currently on the registry are first time offenders and have never been rearrested since what happened to put them on it in the first place? Unfortunately, most of the public believe all registrants are repeat offenders, but I believe that statistics would prove otherwise.

Exmedic

And not to throw anyone under the bus, but especially those of us who were added “Retroactively”. There was no registry when my incident happened. No registry when I was arrested. No registry when I was sentenced. No registry when I went to prison, and just started right as I was being released.

I / we in that position did not get a chance to plea bargain based on being put on a registry so some of us may have been sentenced harsher than those who got a chance to plea down based on the registry. All I am saying is, even though the registry is not fair, it is even less fair to those added “After the fact”.

But in truth, if you did your time, then yes, no one should be on a registry. And the fact it is for life with little chance to challenge it, is in fact punishment, regardless of what the pathetic courts rule. They are not living the daily nightmares we and our families endure on any given day. I could go on for pages but do not want to go into a rant.

God save us all, we are going to need it. The old saying “It gets worse better it gets better” has already happened to us. The difference is, just when we think it cannot get any worse, it somehow does.

No one belongs on that list to be branded for the rest of their lives.

Jerry, With All Due Respect…………..

……..NO ONE BELONGS ON ANY DRACONIAN LIST!…………

Thank You!

It would be ironic. It’s also inevitable, and it would also be justice.