Ineffective, Costly, and Harmful: DEBUNKING THE SEX OFFENSE REGISTRY
The Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center (SOLPRC) at Mitchell Hamline School of Law published a report (March 2025) that contains significant evidence and resources that debunk the Registry, defining it as ineffective, costly and harmful to registrants and their families.
The report states: “The modern sex offense registry was borne out of the belief that a public registry listing people who had been convicted of a sex offense would make communities safer. That premise was wrong. We now have thirty years of data concluding that public registries do not work as intended—in fact, there is evidence that public registries actually increase registrant recidivism. Furthermore, there is no definitive evidence that these laws deter non-registrants from sexually offending. At the same time, sex offense registration and notification (SORN) laws contribute to the stigmatization of registrants, which make securing employment and housing more challenging, and disrupt or preclude the maintenance of strong social ties. Registrants’ families also experience significant hardships. SORN laws should be abandoned, and resources should instead be invested in evidence-based interventions to address sexual violence that are currently starved for resources.”
The report concludes: “Experts on sexual violence policy recognize that SORN laws do not reduce sexual offense recidivism. The gratuitous burdens that SORN laws impose on registrants and their families harm both them and the communities in which they live. Those communities would benefit from shifting the resources currently devoted to administering SORN laws to funding interventions to reduce the incidence of sexual violence that are effective, including primary prevention85, support services for victims/survivors, and reentry and treatment programs to facilitate the reintegration to civil society of people who have sexually offended.”
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Soon we will get from DOGE and others a full accounting of the Impact of SORA/SORNA; Adam Walsh, etc; Costs based on an Annual Basis
All the Monies that the Taxpayers have been fleeced…Under Federal Law, The Fleecing falls under the RICO ACTs
Stay Tuned and everyone please pray and Be Happy!
The Mitchell-Hamline School of Law located in Minnesota has long been critical of the sex offender registries.
Eric Janus, who is a former president and dean of the school and director of their Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center (yes the school actually has a department devoted to being critical of the registry) wrote an Amicus Curiae brief in the Michigan Does v Whitmer case. He has also written several great books like Failure to Protect: America’s Sexual Predator Laws and the Rise of the Preventive State and Sexual Predators: Society, Risk and the Law. Which are both great material.
Just think what the reparations cost will be when it’s actually found to be a hidden punishment behind it. 95 Billion is the cost if we were to get just 100,000. That would set them all off.
the document cannot be download the link is broken
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This is a copy paste post.
ACSOL Letter to DOGE Requests Elimination of All Funding for SORNA
February 24, 2025 R H
Source: ACSOL
The Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) has prepared and sent a letter to the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), headed by Elon Musk, to eliminate all funding for the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA). According to that letter, annual funding for SORNA exceeds $10 billion.
The letter states clearly that SORNA funding has punished and continues to punish U.S. citizens required to register. The letter identifies three agencies — Department of Justice, Department of State and the General Services Administration — as recipients of SORNA funding.
For example, SORNA requires individuals convicted of a sex offense involving a minor, including offenses that did not include violence or even physical touching, to have a “unique identifier” added to their passport. This identifier is now printed on page one of the passports of affected registrants and can result in the denial of entry into countries. In the history of the world only two countries — Nazi Germany and the USSR — have added similar markings to the passports of their citizens. For both countries, the passports of only their Jewish citizens had this marking.
The letter also addresses recently issued regulations which require registrants to take actions that are not possible in the state where they live. For example, the regulations require many registrants to register four times a year despite the fact that state law requires registration only once a year.
ACSOL will post any and all replies to this letter on this website.
How much money, does anyone have an estimate, would be saved by DOGE gutting SORNA?
Billion?
The Total Cost of SORNA is between $10 billion and $20 Billion
It depends how you calculate the total costs. Just to enforce it is around $10 Billion; add in the other costs, aka Attorneys fees, etc it bloats to about $20 Billion
OOPS…failed to mention…The Total Costs depends upon The Byrne Fund Federal Grants to the States; the additional monies every state needs to enforce this; the associated fees such as Overtime for LEO’s doing compliance checks; computer costs to track Registered Citizens; and the list goes on and ON!…So sure $10 Billion is a fare assessment but in all actuality it is much more!
With regard to compliance checks….the only piece of toilet paper that a Registered Citizen is to sign is their annual; bi-annual or whatever requirement for registration per their statutory requirements!
to sign anything other than that is ILLEGAL…you do not have to sign….just wave at ‘THEM’ and wish them a great day! make sure you have your smartphone in your hand recording it!
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