Overwhelming WIN for Emily Horowitz in Yesterday’s Debate on Abolishing the Sex Offender Registry
Debate Results Favor Abolishing Sex Offender Registries
Last night, The Soho Forum and Reason.com held a debate on whether, “All the laws requiring those convicted of sex offenses to put their names in a registry should be abolished.”
Listeners were asked to vote BEFORE hearing the debate and then, again, AFTER hearing the debate.The results and a link to the debate are below.
As you can see, Emily Horowitz’s argument (in favor of abolishing the registry) was overwhelmingly persuasive and congratulations on the win. ***Readers, please note this is an academic debate. It is NOT a court hearing and the results of this debate will not have any impact on sex offender laws.***
Watch the video: http://reason.com/blog/2018/02/12/should-the-sex-offender-registry-be-abol
| Pre | Post | Change | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | 38.89% | 72.22% | 33.33% |
| No | 22.22% | 15.56% | -6.67% |
| Undecided | 38.89% | 12.22% | -26.67% |
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How many total listeners were there that voted? Thank you so much for putting on this debate. It certainly changed my perspective.
I took a trip to Michigan from Florida, I was told by Marion county that I had to get paperwork to travel to Michigan. I stopped by the Sheriff’s department and gave them the address of where I would be staying at in Michigan. When I got to Michigan I was to go to the State Police department and register there with the address and how long I was going to be there. Then I was told by the Michigan State Police that I must report back to them when I was leaving Michigan. I was there for 5 or 6 days and nights.
On a different subject; I would like to thank Florida Action Committee for the free service of a text to me to remind me of the months that I needed to go register with the Sheriff’s Office here in Florida. Im grateful to have this reminder because a few times I thought I had missed my by- yearly report months. One less thing to be stressed about.. Thank you again F. A.C., what a gift….
Glad you find it useful!
MARCI Hamilton…? I thought MARGARET Hamilton from the Wizard of Oz. She’s going to get us ALL, and our little dogs too! I’m glad Emily was able to douse her metaphorically with a pail of water. Marci is the REAL Wicked Witch of the west!
Watching the debate now.. it’s very good. As to the questions about travelling. This applies only to those who are completely done with any and all probation or community control requirements; after you have served your sentence and you are now living your life dealing with the lifetime requirements. This is only my opinion, has worked for me but it is an unpopular answer: risk it and just go. Don’t tell anyone just pack your bags and go. The airport will not be checking you against a registry and you will allowed on the plane. The LAST thing you want to be doing is giving out your name to places you visit. That information will haunt even log after this nightmare is over. You don’t want to be volunteering your information to every town and city you visit. Why? Because it’s illegal!! Worst case scenario? You get arrested and go to jail. Is that really so horrible compared to living life like this? Going to jail will automatically get you a case. You go to court and you fight it, based on the growing stacks and stacks of case of law and decisions happening all around the country. Do your research. Study what others are doing to get out from under this. We must fight this and it will be won one at a time as we each say, enough! Punishing a person aFTER his sentence has been served goes against the very foundation of our legal system. It called the ex post facto clause. No one is going to fight your case for you. YOU have to fight your case and you know what? The law is on our side!! I have fought my case and won. You must do the same. Peace.
My family member is about to leave the state with little money. Are you saying, just go, don’t tell anyone and don’t register as soon as you get to another state?
He is off probation, but the ‘law’ just did a residency check on him last week. How would that work? Thank you for being brutally honest, just don’t know how that would work for him as there would be no money to “fight the case”
Sarah, please keep in mind individual’s posts on here do not necessarily reflect the opinions of FAC. We would NEVER suggest violating registration laws, absconding or failing to report as required.
I would NOT recommend taking the above to just go….. Living life out here will always be painful, but far better than a 6×6.
Don’t forget, that would make us all look bad and only give ammunition to the people we are trying to defeat.
” It is NOT a court hearing and the results of this debate will not have any impact on sex offender laws ”
True it is not a court hearing, but I think it may have an impact of “some sort” because I’m sure there are people in the legal field that read (reason.com) Judges, lawyers and such. With her scholastic credentials as a Sociologists, she may well convince a judge or a panel of judges in some pending or future cases. She may even be called as an expert witness some time to weigh in on a pending case or even be cited. Who knows.
Undoubtedly correct. Ms. Horowitz is an expert and has authored on the topic. I needed to clarify that it was just an academic debate or I’d have received 20 emails asking if it means they don’t have to register anymore.
What I think is quite astonishing is that more people voted yes than no in the PRE discussion vote….my only question to that is, how many of those voters were sex offenders or personally know sex offenders? Because that could easily tip the scales.
Almost doubling the yes votes is still an incredible feat.
The true measure is how many were persuaded by the argument – that change (the right-most column) is what is meaningful.
Yes..I get that. But if we are trying to fight a war, and are STARTING with more on our side than not, isn’t that an advantage from the get-go??
It is amazing to see how when people are presented at the last with both sides of the argument their opinions change. Ignorance is bliss indeed.