How about a bill to prevent cops and other adults from using the internet to pose as minors in order to lure people into committing crimes?

I’d like to know exactly how many sex crimes in the last ten years or so were the result of the “on-line grooming” and of those, how many were a) those stupid FBI, ICAC, or private citizen “look at me protecting children” stings, and b) by someone on the registry.

Experiment idea: Felonize those stupid stings and then see how much sex crime beginning with “on-line grooming” occurs. Don’t even have to write new law for it – encouraging someone else to commit a crime makes one liable for that crime (at least in Georgia, not that they have ever prosecuted as such).

Of course that’s why they’re dragging their feet and semi-stonewalling.None of them wants to give the other side a free attack-ad and sink their chances at getting re-elected. All that CP boogeyman show during Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearings is still fresh on people’s minds. This whole thing is so damn predictable.

That is the Real Question to Pose!

Thanks

And there it is. They all know the people running against them will run an ad showing they voted for the new law and conveniently leave out the part they had to do something because of the SCSC ruling.

https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/jordan-initiative-strengthens-sex-offender-bill/article_19f7cddb-fe5d-5c01-a8ed-2ee597763890.html

Eugene

Maybe not legally, but in my opinion, any sanctions that lead to prison if you simply overlook a rule, is 100% punitive. Why you ask? You cannot be sent to prison for non punitive reasons. Smart mouth the judge, go to jail. It is punishment. Smart off to your parents, go to your room, it is punishment. Cause and effect.

Most if not all of us, were not sentence to a life sentence. And yet we were. The registry in every way, shape and form, punishes us AND our families, every day the sun rises in the sky. Many of us look over our shoulders with every waking minute, wondering if some stupid rule will send us back to prison, possible for more than our original sentences.

This is NOT about compliance, it is about punishment, plain and simple. Any legal scholar could look at the words punishment and punitive, then align and compare to the registry requirements, and penalties for non compliance, and only come to one conclusion. Arrests, jail, prison, probation, house arrest, GPS monitoring, all things we face for simply forgetting an email address we occasionally used 10 years ago.

No other crime in the U.S has that kind of loose trigger effect than any registry violation. Again, if it is a crime to overlook a so called non punitive registry compliance, how can any sane person say it is not punishment? Let’s not even get started on the “retroactive” application of said registries. Nor should we forget the judges who are in the pockets of legislatures or afraid their careers could go away for siding with the truth.