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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This will not pass. This guy probably won’t even be elected to office in solid-blue New York. New York has a “registry lite” with most reports being done by paper and most of the information that federal SORNA requires is not even collected by the NY state registry. In New York, Tier 1 registrants only register for 20 years (removal is automatic, no hearing required), and everyone can go to court to challenge their tier assignment basically for their entire lives (there’s a waiting period in between denials). New York has no residency restrictions and only one silly work restriction involving ice cream trucks (probably in reaction to a single incident). New York is easily one of the 10 “best” states for RSOs to reside if they can afford it and endure the weather.
Sssssshhhhh. Don’t give this clown, or any other NY lawmakers, any reason to make things worse.
In my opinion, the fact that the RSO that is the reason this bill could be introduced refers to himself as the “High Priest of the International Church of Homosexual Pedophilia”. He comes across as though he is asking for attention and wanting to get a reaction.
Also, the person saying he would introduce the bill has not been elected. He is just a candidate. But now he has a lot of attention.
Regarding sexual assault on college campuses… perhaps they could ban coed campuses. ( sarcasm)
Sometimes sarcasm and humor is lost on the audience. I’m sure that was the case here.
But if you think this politician is levelheaded then you did not hear his inteview on a morning radio show. He believes everyone on the registry is a “pedophile.” I’ll be adding him to the Shiitake Awards tomorrow but I had just posted a nominee fo today.
I could not find it anywhere else but on Twitter so here’s the link:
https://twitter.com/WGYMornings/status/1572573922004172802
Do we know of even one case where a registrant re-offended on a higher ed campus in which he was enrolled?
Even ONE?
Sexual assault will continue to be a problem on campus, so long as we continue to look to the registry for prevention.
I’m not sure how well that will fly, and if it passes, how long before the lawsuits start rolling in. It should be up to the school, and not the State to determine if they want a registered citizen on campus. I don’t even know if it’s constitutional for a State to restrict certain citizens from schools, as this is a reminder of the black segregation era.
When was the last time you saw a bunch of minors hanging out on a college campus? Almost all college students are 18.
And another thing, why is this Karen afraid of the registrant in her class? His crime involved boys, not girls, so she’s safe. She’s not worried about her safety, she’s just being a hateful person.
It makes no sense to ban registrants from college campus because of “all the minors wandering around” yet all you have to do is walk into a grocery store, clothing store, bookstore, or any other kind of store and you will encounter lots of minors.
Legislation like this needs to be stopped or else soon we’ll be banned from grocery stores and clothing stores too. Otherwise lets just ban arsonists from going to gas stations, shoplifters from going to stores, drunk drivers from going into bars, and so on.
Everyone has a right to an education, but it’s the same old song. I don’t know how New York handles probation. If the state bars people from internet access, the proposal can only compound the difficulty of reintegration. The proposal also assumes that all offenses are the same.