NY: Candidate seeks to end in-person college for people required to register as sex offenders
Dave Catalfamo, Republican candidate for state Assembly District 113, pledged on Tuesday that he would introduce legislation that would bar registered sex offenders from taking classes on college campuses.
Catalfamo said during a phone interview on Tuesday that he does think sex offenders have a right to an education, though he thinks all sex offenders should not be permitted to wander on campus… the candidate replied that his legislation would not make any exceptions for any registered sex offender.
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Here we go again trying to drum up votes by using registered persons as the scapegoat.
When are the courts finally going to open their eyes and see that the registries are punishment?
I really hope when this candidate is out canvassing for votes that a piano or anvil falls out of the sky and lands on his head.
Are there any other group of people who consistently get more and more liberty and freedom removed from them as often as a registered citizen? If so I haven’t heard of it.
This shit is getting old. Denying someone an education? That’s agreat way to ensure they fail.
But let’s be honest. That’s the plan anyway. We all know if a politician is talking, they are lying.
He knows he doesn’t have a prayer of getting this introduced or passed. He just wants some free press because it is election time.
You will notice his stance is not accompanied by any DATA, such as the number of RSO’s attending college campuses in the State of New York and the number of offenses that have been carried out by those RSO’s, say over the last 10 years.
Why? Because he knows the answer doesn’t support his position and he just wants the free press and votes of the emotional, uninformed, electorate.
Changes in laws that affect people’s freedoms should be required to have supporting data before passage and studies done 3-5 years later proving the law has accomplished what it set out to do. If that had existed for SORNA, it would already be in history’s dustbin but because it doesn’t, numerous lawsuits have to be filed for decades and millions spent until someone gets lucky and it all come crashing down. In the meantime, you have people living under overpasses because they can’t be at their homes at night since it is located next to a school, which is closed when they would be there.
The stupidity of it all is just mind blowing.
sex offenders should not have the right to wander on campus? this guy knows that there are sex offenders everywhere doesn’t he?(most are not on the registry yet) in fact college campus’s are a very high risk rate when it comes to sex without mutual consent. What about the offenders that are not allowed to use computers does that bar them from getting a college education?
as offenders i think we all know a college degree doesn’t help you get a job as most employers wont hire us anyway and you could save thousands and thousands of dollars. A trade school is the way to go until they bar us from them also. All in all its just another brick in the wall
The question is whether or not a trade school would be considered an institution of higher learning. Based on casual observation, law enforcement officials could argue that it is indeed.
This would be another manifestation of the bill of attainder that the registry scheme is! The registry is state sponsored hatred in the form of a government blacklist! There are more than one million registered citizens now. Soon we will cast off this illegal tyranny!
I need to get his mailing address so I can add it to my Phase IV Media Blitz mailing list. Another politician who needs an education.