Sex Offender Laws Are Broken. These Women Are Working To Fix Them
All 50 states have sex offender registries, and the U.S. Justice Department combines them in a single national database. The information, which is available online to the general public, covers nearly 1 million people, whose crimes run the gamut from streaking to rape. In addition to the stigma imposed by that electronic pillory, registration comes with a panoply of restrictions that dictate where people can live and work, when and where they are allowed to travel, and even whether they’re allowed to pick up their own children from school or take them to the park.
Reform organizations cite four major reasons for scaling back or eliminating the registry. They say it’s unconstitutional, imposing ex post facto penalties that deprive registrants of rights everyone else enjoys; it’s unscientific, relying on discredited beliefs about the danger that registrants pose; it’s unforgiving, disrupting people’s lives decades after they’ve completed their sentences; and it’s undiscriminating, burdening not just the registrants themselves but their families and communities
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You hqve no clue what you are talking about! Level Ones, like I am, are not placed for public dissemination!
I would like to express my graditude to these women for putting themselves out there for me. I appreciate everything total strangers are doing to stop these unfair and illegal Laws and the ignorance of the general public.
I have met with some of these ladies and they are truly fine folks trying to bring into the ‘light’ the injustice of the system and correct it. Family members are also victims of these RSO laws. I too thank them for taking up leadership positions. Sometimes I let my ‘warrior aggressiveness’ get ahead of my common sense. We need dedicated ladies to help calm down the efforts. I am not a big fan of most politicians as I had experience with them while I was assigned to DC. I would much rather have some ‘rag head’ shooting at me than have some politician with ‘power’ trying to BS me.
Folks it’s MLK day. Maby take some time to go read up on MLK. You’ll be surprised at how similar the fight he fought is to the one we fight today. Take a few minutes to educate yourself and learn a little today.