By John Covert
First published in the Arizona Capitol Times
John Covert does an excellent job of showing how sex offense registries have thoroughly missed the mark.
Numerous academic studies have shown that registries do not accomplish what they were intended to do: reduce sexual recidivism. As Covert points out, “They (sex offense registries) do not prevent sex offenses. They do not protect children. They do not make communities safer.”
Thank you, John Covert, for telling it like it is.
Change is always good. Here is what Safer Virginia is doing in this Film festival. A guy by the name of Dave Smith striving to get people to advocate for this sex registry denouncement. While advocacy is good this film festival make a good directions as well It also alerts others about this registry and how it effects many not only in Virginia but in all other states states. A good start for change for positive measures is good. Check out this out….https://inthrivefilmfestival.org/
How about this, teachers to be put on sex offender registry for supporting trans students in new bill being proposed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/new-bill-would-convict-teachers-of-felony-put-on-sex-offender-list-for-trans-support/ar-BB1jntdV?ocid=msedgntp&pc=LCTS&cvid=642682607bb5470699932037c516e420&ei=63
Words cannot describe the idiocy. I can only hope that bill dies in committee. To equate acknowledgement of a trans student with a sex crime is preposterous. The suggestion that the state will destroy a teacher’s life, over an act of understanding is just unbelievable
Yes today is leap year and yes it is time for a new direction. While many are caught up in this web of deceit with this sex registry many are still worried & are still going around with the pains of this affliction. Reputations are ruined in many ways. While many can wish that this had never happened to them. Can one cry over spilled milk?
Justice is the best thing anyone can do for his or her fellow man. We that have gone thru this ordeal are the best to speak out about this. Are we all to fear evil? It seems many are but no one can do anything against the truth but for the truth.
Sure standing up whether advocating, protecting, or calling out this registry for what it is can be very good and is the morally right thing to do in many of these ordeals. There are many ethical issues involved in much of these ordeals.
Is the sex registry the proper manner to trap or enslave another, a sort of stumbling block of man’s device? Is abuse necessary in much of this type of incarceration or should we all wake up and call this registry a systematic deception. I am sure many would agree.