Guy Hamilton-Smith: It’s like a choose your own adventure book where most of the options are felonies.
You gotta love Guy Hamilton-Smith! Guy is a legal fellow of the Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, an advocate for reform and author of some of the most classic social media posts (among scholarly stuff, too) I’ve read.
In response to a comment on one of his own tweets, which said, “One often under appreciated feature of sex offense registries is that you can call three different law enforcement agencies and ask what the legal requirements are for compliance and you get three different answers Ignorance of the law is standard if the law is incomprehensible” he wrote, the following:
It’s like a choose your own adventure book where most of the options are felonies.
Anyone who has had to navigate the registration requirements, who has dealt with the Sheriff’s office or FDLE and who grew up with “Chose your own adventure” books, knows just how true his observations are!
You can follow Guy on twitter here: https://twitter.com/G_Padraic
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So true. What amazes me most is no matter how long ago the original charges, they make any new law or ordinance retroactive, blanketing anyone caught up in this nightmare. Regardless of the original agreement between the Judge and legal council. Thank goodness for FAC’s support and continued efforts to relieve good people from additional constraints and hidden ordinances.
Ha! I’m glad you enjoy my tweets. Keep fighting the good fight
Challange? Change? As of Oct. 2018, more compliance. Nothing can stop the Police State Snowball. Ask yourself, What other group of Offenders would comply?
Thankfully we in Florida also have FAC, which not only challenges these laws but, for the near term, disseminates the sort of information that helps people remain in compliance and out of trouble.
Thankful for FAC as well. I appreciate everything they do and love coming here not only to get the correct information from FAC, but also get people’s input as well when they contribute on here.
I agree…without FAC here, there is really nobody else for us and things would most likely be a mess.
Thank you FAC !