Nearly a decade into an effort to reduce the glut of sex offenders on the state registry to allow more intense focus on the most dangerous, a bureaucratic morass has nearly doubled the registry instead.
The Oregon parole board remains bogged down in state-mandated assessments to gauge the risk of each offender to commit new crimes.
Of 32,523 people on the sex offender registry, almost two-thirds, or 20,575, are waiting to be classified into one of the state’s three notification levels: Level 1 for low risk, Level 2 for medium risk and Level 3 for high risk.
The backlog has kept hundreds of low-level sex offenders in limbo. Those who stay crime-free for years can petition to no longer register. But they must wait until the state gets around to reclassifying their risk level to petition for relief.
State lawmakers have twice extended a 2016 deadline to complete the risk assessments and set aside more than $6 million for the work. The deadline now is December 2026, but state officials tasked with the job aren’t confident they can meet even that date.
To: Sex offender truth
It is like having two ex wives but the judge only granting you a divorce from one. For now, you are still married to Florida, albeit, via the registry. Be a shame to have to pay again to get off of Florida’s and here, depending on the judge, it is not a sure bet.
If you are denied, I saw a post here once that said you have to wait an additional 5 years to try again? (Meaning you will have then paid THREE times to get off the registry) Some of us will be pushing 70 by then. I was going to say I do not want to be rocking in a chair in a nursing home and finally get the news I no longer have to register. Then I remember we are NOT allowed in nursing homes.
How about if no violence was involved and no more convictions automatically released at ten years. All others go through the evaluation process. No tier system which doesn’t work anyway because judges don’t understand it and make up there own interpretation which varies greatly from each judge and prosecutors. This would cut down the work load so they can safely handle it and save $ millions with very little risk. Not so hard to figure out.
Wait until they run across someone who hasn’t been arrested in 20 years or more and they assess him as “high risk.”
Dustin
Would just like to point out that, not everyone on the registry is a “Him”. So many seem to be shocked that there are females on registries.
Noted.
Also note that Bryne grants are awarded based on the number of registrants. Not sure if that applies to those publicly listed or not – I suspect it does, since not publicly listing “level 1” registrants is contrary to federal rule. That may or may not be a factor in such a large increase in Oregon’s registry.
Not on target for the article, but are we not discriminated against for our sexual origination.
Reminds me of what happened in Michigan. It seems they got rid of theirs but then it came back, with a few lesser impacts. It is like curing an infection that just won’t go away no matter how many antibiotics you take.
Notice how OR is light years ahead of FL when it comes to reducing the damage caused by the registry.
An article like this one would be completely foreign here in FL.
Thanks in part to the difference in political climate, and FAC’s OR counterpart, Oregon Voices.
How is Oregon light years ahead of Florid as you said, Jacob? I sincerely do not understand your comparison because both states have severely flawed SO laws.
Oregon has an off ramp, offenders can live wherever, most are not publicly listed.
Actually, ALL states have seriously flawed SO laws.
Yes..by definition they are however, I am on the Florida registry for life. I moved to California and naturally was forced to register (for life) BUT they went to a tiered registry and I petitioned to be removed.
I was removed and I no longer have to register in California – I am still under Florida’s thumb after 23 years (with a spotless record) YET I can NOT petition to get off there and get my life back (again I do not live there and have not for the past 15 years).
Basically my life is being held hostage in Florida!
That is partially not true. I say that because I have seen posts on here in the past where someone from out of state was able to get off of the Florida registry. I am sure it cost them a pretty penny and have the right lawyer and the right judge. In other words, the stars had to align, but it can be done.
That’s why I went ahead and came back to Florida, when I moved to San Diego, I was told I had to register there, and would still be on Florida’s registry. So I hopped back on the plane and said Adios Amigos to Cali after just 3 days of misleading paradise.
Should save tax payers and former registrants a lot of time and trouble.
1. 20 years offense free no problem….no problem… set them free.
2. Then there is of course the new argument, the SO registry doesn’t work so what are they really evaluating?
3 LEO’s collect DNA so they know pretty quickly who the offender is.
The process never really worked. It took 25 years for it to get to a point where it is collapsing on itself due to the sheer volume of “no way out “ and the realization it can’t continue to go down this path but hey…why change?
There is NO doubt that it is a money scheme in Florida.
To NOT allow those with effectively ZERO potential of being a danger to be removed from Florida’s registry listing is PROOF of this. PERIOD
It is life time probation without the potential of relief. It is cruel and usual punishment – regardless of what anyone or any group claims/thinks. PERIOD
Change my mind!
Lee C
Crickets……………………….Hello? Anyone? yeah that is what Lee and me and all of us thought. No one can justify registries are not punishment unless they have walked in our shoes, lived the day to day lives we have and experienced the horrors of the registry’s effects on our and our families’ daily lives.
No one can judge what they have not experienced. So to make a blanket statement that the registry is non punitive is disrespectful and negligent of our rights. Ok I am done preaching. For now, anyway.
I can make it even easier and save more money.
ABOLISH THE REGISTRY.
Until someone can find one single crime less registry violations that the registry either played a role in investigating (not prosecuting) or would have gone unsolved without it (as in providing information otherwise not available), it cannot be said that it does anything to prevent sex crime or aid LE in investigating them.
A tier system, more restrictions and obligations, or re-evaluating criteria won’t make the registry “work” any more than using different gas will make a chainsaw fix a flat tire.
LMAO!!! 🤣 I am in California where they have now had years to assign Tier levels to us Registrants. And, like their counterpart in Oregon, the CDCR/CADOJ hired 60 new full-time staff to do this work, and they STILL can’t get the it done!! UNBELIEVABLE!!
Lazy, incompetent morons!! 😖
I am in California and I was placed on tier 1.
I hired Janice Bellucci to submit my petition for removal and it was granted (it took 6 months) and I am no longer required to register in California.
It was great having a birthday without having the burden of registering like a dog for once!
Now if I can get Florida to let me go (23 years crime free and no longer living in Florida for over 15 years) I will be able to move on with my life.
F Florida!