HI: Hawaii considering sex offender residency restrictions.
Hawaii, like Arkansas, is considering imposing a residency restriction on persons required to register as sex offenders.
According to a news report, the proposal before lawmakers would make it illegal for any registered sex offender to temporarily or permanently live within 1,000 feet of a school, childcare facility, playground or park.
The bill is introduced by Rep. Scott Nishimoto, but another Senator noted there will be some issues with the new law. State Sen. Karl Rhoads, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said the proposed changes could cause problems by drastically limiting the places people on the registry can live.
Stakeholders in Hawaii should be contacting their legislators to oppose this law.
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Regarding the fact stated in the above article that Hawaii is one of 20 states that don’t impose residency or presence restrictions on its sex offender registrants, I would think it would be illustrative if Ms. Blair could research and show data that either the occurrence of sex crime has dropped in states where they are imposed or higher in states where they are not. Absent that, the overall tone of the article that the proposal is necessary for public safety falls well below the standard of fair and objective journalism.
FYI, all empirical research regarding presence and residence restrictions of sex offender registrants has shown that they make absolutely no difference in recidivism or public safety. More often than not, the legislators that propose them are either grandstanding, pandering, or attempting to camouflage their own inadequacy or illicit activity.
Suggest everyone start responding to these articles to those that publish them. Venting here and sites like it accomplishes nothing.
Venting actually does a lot of good. Let it out! This is at least one place that we can voice that frustration and vent anger with a group who fully understands the way that we feel since they are in the same boat.
Additionally it shows that not everyone is passively accepting the ever growing abuses and additional punishments lumped on a virtually helpless group by law enforcement and political hacks such as senator Lauren Book!
Hobbling someone and then kicking them over and over while they are down is PURE EVIL and the LOWEST form a bullying there is – again – think professional victim and full time hypocrite Lauren Book and her scumbag daddy Ron!
If they pas this in Hawaii of all places i will lose all hope. Hawaii has some of the most laid back understanding people in the world for them to pass this would be a sign of the end of any liberty’s for people forced to register.
Hawaii is also so small a land mass having restrictions would force some off the island where they were born and raised
Unfortunately I must fully agree with you.
If after ALL of the incontrovertible evidence to the contrary these useless laws are passed then it will become perfectly clear that imposing these laws are designed solely for the continued PUNISHMENT of those labelled as “sex offenders” and NOTHING more!
And they WILL be passed because facts DO NOT matter when POLITICIANS ARE manipulating the public emotionally – it has already been proven time and time again – we have LOST.
“Hawaii is also so small a land mass having restrictions would force some off the island where they were born and raised”
That assumes that those who are forced off the island can afford to move to the mainland, and that any state in the mainland would accept them through the Interstate Compact if they’re still on paper. My experience with the IC is that the receiving state will always refuse registrants under any premise possible, usually that the proposed residence doesn’t comply with existing restrictions (made up on the spot, more often than not).
So now what? Not allowed to live anywhere in Hawaii, not allowed to be homeless in Hawaii, no other state will allow you to move there, (odds are) you can’t afford the plane/boat fare to get there anyway, and (likely) there isn’t room in Hawaii’s jails and prisons.
It’s amazing what passes for solutions in politics, especially to fabricated problems.
They need to put in place these restrictions on sex offenders so the drug dealers, armed home invaders, armed robbers, drunk drivers, murderers, etc. will have a place to live. After all, their recidivism rate is much higher than that of a sex offender thus they will be moving in and out of their homes at a much more frequent rate and we would not want to inconvenience them.
Well, there goes my Magnum P.I. style of living there one day and cruising the islands in my red Ferrari.
So basically you can’t live in all of Hawaii. Completely off limits with living there.
Oh that will be perfect, since Hawaii lawmakers have such a sterling record of handling homeless people…
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/30/tom-brower-beaten-hawaii_n_7698086.html