Please participate in SORS (Sex Offense Registry Study)
This is a legitimate study.
We are looking for research participants who can help us learn about important issues related to sex offense registries. We are collecting anonymous information from people required to register.
WHO? You are eligible to participate in this study If you are 18 or older, and are required to register on a sex offender registry in the United States.
Please complete the survey using this link: http://bit.ly/sors2020
HOW? The survey is conducted online and will take 20-30 minutes to complete. Survey information is completely anonymous and confidential. You will never be asked to provide your name or contact information, and there is no way of connecting your personal information to your responses.
Please complete the survey using this link: http://bit.ly/sors2020
ABOUT: The goals of this study are to (a) describe demographics including racial and ethnic groups, gender, socioeconomic status, and the experiences of LGBTQ+ people on registries, (b) describe the pathways leading people to registration and issues involving the criminal justice system, and (c) describe the consequences of registration to the health and well-being of people required to register. We aim to inform policymakers about pathways leading to registration, and the impact of registries on the people required to register.
For more information about SORS: www.sorstudy.org
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You say there is “no way to connect your personal information to your responses”, but aren’t there digital markers which identify the survey taker’s computer? You may pledge not to reveal the information but has the law enforcement department applicable to the survey respondent agreed to never issuing a warrant for that information?
You saw something in the survey that asked incriminating information? I didn’t.
How could a survey like this possibly give law enforcement probable cause to apply for a warrant?
Even if it was a trap, that would never hold up in court. Not saying law enforcement doesn’t lie ( They do ) but having a survey posted and vetted by F.A.C that would screw over the masses of registered folks would be dismissed.
Now, just like when speaking to a therapist, if you state you are actively offending with someone, then all bets are off but it would be a Hell of a stretch for them to use anything we said in the survey to make an arrest.
I did not see anything in the 30 minutes of questions that gave me pause.
I took the survey and wasn’t worried at all about it.
But some parts of the survey allow people to just write in anything they want. So a person could easily write in something that would clearly give probable cause for a warrant and it would certainly hold up in court, as would any resulting conviction. I mean, a person could say, “I committed crime A against person B yesterday at 10 AM at location C.”! If you specified A, B, and C, I’d say that is pretty clearly probable cause.
So, as you suggest, people should treat it just as they would talking to a therapist.