Proposed Bill in Mississippi Will Make Employment for Sex Offenders Even More Difficult
A bill pending in the Mississippi Legislature would require employers of registered sex offenders to notify parents or guardians of minors who might be in direct, private and unsupervised contact with the employee.
The bill would apply to all registered sex offenders regardless of the date of conviction.
The House Judiciary B Committee on Tuesday passed Senate Bill 2532 to the full House for a vote. If the full House approves it, the bill will go to Gov. Phil Bryant to sign.
The bill can be read here: http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2019/html/SB/2500-2599/SB2532IN.htm
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In other words, they want those who employ registrants to either fire them or post signs that say “DANGER: SEX OFFENDERS WORK HERE.”
Call it what it is – a bill to add more inane “sex offender laws” with absolutely no basis in fact to bolster the public image of the author and legislature as a whole.
Is there no one there in Miss. state to advocate for the Register Citizen?
I’m just to the north in Tennessee. We aren’t facing that kind of bill….YET, but we have a problem with our chapter of the ACLU not wanting to touch any sex offender rights issues.
I have contacted the TN ACLU before with regards to my religious freedom being unconstitutionally abridged by the annual 11-day Halloween curfew that applies to offenders under T.D.O.C. community supervision and their canned response is “Challenges to sex offender laws have been largely unsuccessful. Therefore, we must choose carefully what we spend our limited resources on.”
I even contacted the national chapter over the lack of help from the state chapter and never heard squat out of it.
Sadly the only justice for registrants comes when one has the money to hire a skilled private attorney who knows how to frame the legal argument properly.
I am a regular listener to “Registry Matters” and the point Larry repeatedly makes is states can do what they want legislatively until they stop of their own volition or are taken to court and ruled against. Only when the courts make the state back off will they do so.
How is it that Legislatures can issure compliance after the Judges Gavel.
Such a shame and open for their biased discretion. The idea that staying clear of all children entirely is irrational and impossible. So there go the jobs for these people because obviously people will be scared and the employer will lose business etc. etc. Where are all the attacks on children in public happening? Someone please point me to an incident of this type happening anywhere?
I agree. The upside is this law might push those on the registry to get more involved in the fight against these kind of laws. I help by training (for free) those on the registry and their family members on how to fight back politically on the ground in the community and make a good living while doing it. It’s fun.
Robert, can you also do that for folks just to the north in Tennessee, please?
My main issue is the annual Halloween curfew for us registrants who are on community supervision for life. This curfew runs for 11 days from 6 pm to 6 am. I faithfully attend church every time the doors are opened year round. During curfew I have to miss 1 or 2 Wednesday night Bible study assemblies. Offenders who work nights can break curfew to work, but Christians can’t go to evening services. That’s a direct violation of my 1st Amendment right to the free exercise of my faith.
That’s dumber than a box of rocks. I guess nobody is thinking of the numerous negative repercussions from passing something like that.
the world runs on money.As Congress taught us with its 200 million dollar slush fund to hide its rape,molestation, pedophilia and random sex crimes..210% make sure anyone on the registry stays a destitute 3rd class citizen and unable to mount a legal defense or make thier plight known..smart..evil but smart.as I have said from day one..courts and legislators wont restore your freedoms any more then the British would have restored the colonials..for every one freedom returned 100 will be taken..As long as you allow them authority over you there will always be the risk that even what is restored will be taken.. the government as is WILL NEVER follow the law or keep its promises..when will you learn?.you want freedom ?..you better be ready to do what your ancestors did in 1776..you think it is dangerous ?..is your current situation safe?..sheep waiting for the slaughter..protecting and voting for the politicians that will slaughter you tomarow ?
Well said…Well intentional…. However too many sheeps and not enough wolves!!