Guyana Considering Sex Offender Registry
The country of Guyana is considering enacting a sex offender registry and are collecting feedback from the public.
One of the main ideas in the draft law is to create a national database. This list would include people found guilty of sexual crimes in Guyana or other countries. The Police Commissioner would be in charge of it.
To find out if someone is on the list, a person would need to send a request form to the police. Children and people with mental disabilities would not be listed.
Lawyer Kim Kyte-Thomas, who helped write the law, said there would be strict rules about who can see the data. Breaking these rules would lead to punishment. Offenders would have to register and report regularly while serving their sentence.
[FAC note: seems rational. People with a need to know could actively request information, as opposed to Florida, where it’s actively broadcast. There would be punishment for misuse, and registration would be required only while serving one’s sentence.]
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All sexual predetors should be registered for life, no questions asked.
Then what’s your views on an wrongfully accused sex offender being on the Sex Offender’s List since he has completed his probation period & has always registered with his local sheriff’s office for over 25 years and NEVER violated since status nor “ever” exploded himself to children but he’s an openly gay man.
Registry is totally wrong most cases they don’t do a good job on proving.There is so many on registry that were set up on stings with no victims at all.Like usual us female can say anything and the male go to jail in any situation.
Florida made a pathway to be removed from the registry, but it is up to the judge’s discretion. Many have been denied for no other reason than the judge stating 30 years later with no incidents, they are still a threat. Really? Some of us may never see that freedom.
There should be no registry but those of us who were retroactively applied should automatically be removed since that was not part of our sentencing and was added well after we were sentenced or even after our sentences were over. The courts and legislators get away with it by saying it is not punishment. Here is the definition of punishment and you decide. “The infliction or imposition of a penalty for an offense”. So basically, we are still serving our sentences even though they have been satisfied years earlier.
Guess we get bonus sentences where the judges speak out of both sides of their mouth. It is not punishment, but we are being punished on a daily basis. Name any other group of felons that have to report to the sheriff’s office after their sentences are completed, 2 to 4 times a year. And if not punitive, how come we can be arrested for a long list of violations that no other citizens in the U.S can face, unless they are on probation, which most of us are not. I call this double speak.
When we try and bring these concerns to a judge or the courts, all they hear is blah, blah, blah, or they justify it with some sort of confusing explanation that not even Albert Einstein could decipher. So how is an attorney supposed to respond to that? The word impartial should be removed in our case because many times the point does not meet its mark.
Am I the only one who remembers this is how it started here, info only available to law enforcement? And requests had to be made for a specific person? At some point, it’ll end up the same wherever there is a registry. Ohio has an arsonist registry for life. There are so many opportunities for one registry after another till enough people are on them and no longer have no constitutional rights that America is gone, what little is left.
Once the door is cracked it never closes. Not without major revolutions. At the rate they’re forcing people to register, there will be a large army of people to fight back. But too many know once the government gets their monster foot in the door, they never back down. It’s the nature of the beast.
“The illegal we do immediately; the unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
-Henry A Kissinger
Tell me you see it happening every day………
Jed,
FAC, it is not “rational” for any country to start ANY registry. I can’t believe you are advocating for a registration of ANY kind.
As we have seen time and time again, it starts out to be a “rational” decision and seems perfectly logical at first. Then it but leads to more and more restrictions and punishments as the months and years go by for politicians to gain political favor and will approve ANY type of added punishments and restrictions.
We are not advocating for a rational registry. Make no mistake. There should be no registry. They are more rational than the US
So that would mean in regards to serving ones sentence which would include community supervision/parole/probation and once that sentence in society is finished hopefully there will be automatic removal.
I am instituting a faith based action academy by training registrants and their family members on both skills and political engagement. I will be encouraging my students to give back heavily to organizations like FAC. It is my hope
that many within our ranks will step up not just monetarily but also as volunteers.