Most in Florida are like Ron Book in that they brush aside the actual research and just say it can’t be true, all so they can just keep on ruining lives.

Disagree. Tiering is useless. It changes nothing about public perception because simply being registered is sufficient for discrimination. Many judges share the sentiment or historically sentence the maximum in all cases. Fervent followers of the registry rarely if ever look deeper into individual circumstances. There are too many registrants and boards are too small to thoroughly review individual cases. Appeals of designations will be extraordinarily difficult or impossible for some. The bar for “predator” designation will be ridiculously low (see CPT Munsey’s post). The existing and potential flaws of a tier system are endless, as shown by the states that already use one.

Legislators are fully aware that the registry is absolutely worthless. They’re simply to cowardly to propose abolishing it or have a personal/financial interest in them. Costs are significant, not only of the registry itself, but by civil lawsuits, more and more being filed and won by registrants every month.

Bottom line, tiering is nothing more than creating the illusion of fairness and sensibility while maintaining the status quo.

Sounds strangely like … parole.

Other than that it’s nice to hear that reasoned thinking is taking place in areas of society that might benefit those on “the list.” It’s a small step but one that think is in the right direction. /applause