They’ve been pushing both this and for the state to allow municipalities to pass local residency restrictions but thankfully, they’ve yet to succed on both accounts.

There is one thing to know about NY State. I’d only worry about anything they introduced if it passes the Assembly. The Senate will pass damn near anything but the Assembly is where bills go to die. So if this bill passes the full assembly, it will be a miracle if it dies.

This is similar to what happened in Eastern WA State when tier 1 were not published until one lady got a burr under her saddle and got the state to publish them despite not being necessary.

We are a public safety organization. If we are going to oppose this bill effectively, then we better have a good answer to the question of, what would have prevented this Tier I registrant from allegedly doing all those awful things. Simply pointing out that it would have been “unlikely,” or that this Tier I registrant is innocent til proven guilty, may keep us from facing the issue.

Would public notification have prevented some of these alleged re-offenses by this Tier I offender? Bill sponsors say probably yes. Do we say no? If so, then what about this case makes us say that?

Or is the problem NY’s risk assessment tool? Is it too unscientific? Or the tiering assignment process itself. If THAT’s what caused the problem, then I would agree that that’s where the bill sponsors are making a mistake. But we need to look more closely.

Some members have used this forum to call for a risk-based tier system, including off-ramps. If we want to keep that idea alive, we had better start understanding what happened in NY.

Like most members, I am usually skeptical of public safety legislation inspired by a single criminal. But this is different.

Some of my fellow commenters below have explained this bill as the result of corporate greed, public brainwashing, or (gasp!) democratic elections. But these sorts explanations I think fail to address the core issue and don’t help us function as a public safety organization.

That purported claim and respones is very telling. In fact, it’s an admission that everyone with this label deserves to be “outted” and shamed. Wanting full disclosure because “we can’t have these people living in the shadows” is overly vigilant mob-think. It’s an extention of the “release the list” virtue signaling chant in a quest for justice I see in the comments everywhere.

Thanks to the media and dramatized crime procedurals, public perception is based upon the false notion that everyone on this list is doing Epstein level sh*t. Including those not listed as T1.

So once again the general consensus from the brainwashed public is that “more is better” when in fact that assumption is based upon the faulty reasoning that the registry is a legitimate public safety tool to begin with. It’s not. It’s a faith-based fantasy.