Online Event: Confronting the Registry: The History and Consequences of U.S. Sex Offender Laws
Free. Live-streamed on Facebook (https://www.easternstate.org/facebook) and via Zoom webinar. (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89360366229?
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Join us as we take a look at the history and consequences of well intentioned legislation and the human and community impact of sex offender registries. Since 1996, all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C. require people convicted of sex offenses to be placed on a registry. Over the last 25 years, as laws expanded, the number of people on these registries grew exponentially. Many states are keeping people on registries longer than ever before, sometimes for life, and it has become increasingly dicult to be removed from them. At the same time, a growing amount of research shows that sex offender registries have not met the goals they originally set out to achieve.
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Unless the target audience is legislators, lawyers, law enforcement, and judges, they’ll just be preaching to the choir. I appreciate all the help we can get, but unless somebody that can change the laws or the enforcement gets and heeds the message, nothing will get better for our lot.
JZ
Agreed. I couldn’t have said it better myself. Like you, not being a nay sayer but alot of what happens in this room is us just grandstanding to each other. I type away in here making myself feel better for venting. We share articles and come up with ideas and watch the courts shoot us down like ducks at the county fair. Although there is nothing “Fair” about it.
Once in awhile on this forum you see a boneheaded idea such as violent uprising or intifada. Sometimes these ideas come from otherwise smart people who feel they’ve reached the end of their rope. I know the feeling.
A Sex Offender Intifada would be the quickest way to build popular support for law enforcement budgets, including support for more gear, training, equipment, and surveillance, not to mention longer sentences. It would also be, let’s face it, morally wrong, if we’re talking about violence against those we consider guilty by association.
I thought we were in favor here of non-violence and compliance with the law. Doing so it only protects FAC but helps prevent further popular backlash against this movement.
I do my best to think things through before I post something here. Can we all try to do that.
Agreed – fortunately and unfortunately, there’s often too much going on behind the scenes to moderate all the comments and sometimes something slips through that shouldn’t.
Forum moderation, as with everything else FAC is tasked to do, is a group effort.
We try to err on the side of open speech but certain content may FAC or this movement at risk and might be better posted elsewhere.
I myself sometimes forget the rules of posting and find my stuff not getting through as a result.
The real problem is that they “thought” the registry would accomplish they’re stated goals. When they found out it didn’t they “thought ” the answer was to make the registry even harsher and when that still fell short of they’re goals they add more asinine rules. Alass that didn’t work any better so let’s keep adding more and making it harder ….. . definition of insanity doing the same thing over and over expecting different results. Hmm ? Yep they are insane. Its starting to make me think of salem and the witch trials . your accused if you deny your burned at the stake if you confess your stoned to death. There was no defense and the people were all turned against you and provoked they could do anything they wanted to the accused and it was OK. Sounds familiar huh ? So the problem is people in power “thinking” something they are obviously not equiped to do and them being insane and lastly the media telling the sheep that we are less then human and they should be riled up and hate us . unfortunately they won’t stop till there is bloodshed if its ours who cares if its they’res we are the bad guys .
Meanwhile, a Texas court has ruled that Facebook can be held liable for sex trafficking. Talk about payback! See https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.foxbusiness.com/technology/facebook-could-be-held-liable-for-sex-trafficking-platform-court-rules.amp