The Appeal: What Is The Purpose of Sex Offense Registries?
Two days ago, the Union-Recorder in Georgia published a bizarre editorial. The editorial board noted that the state’s sex offender registry system drives people into homelessness and deprived them of counseling and employment opportunities, but laments this fact only insofar as it allows registrants to “fly under the radar” and makes them “more difficult to track.” Georgia’s registry system, according to the authors, “places too much trust in the honor system” because requiring people to self-register “places too much confidence” in the registrant. They acknowledge that there are “strong penalties” for failing to register, including life in prison, but these apparently don’t go far enough, as some people with convictions could “choose to live on the fringes of the law.”
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I do not know who this person is, but it sounds as though he has not exactly been a supporter of our cause. Correct me if I am wrong.
https://www.therolladailynews.com/news/20191214/sex-offender-expert-charged-with-molesting-children
I nearly fell on the floor when I read this. A credentialed treatment provider engaging in the exact behaviors he was supposed to counsel people against.
In addition to being a setback to the victims, this is a setback for the credibility of the treatment provider profession.
I HOPE that you are right that he was not a vocal advocate for reform, otherwise those views would now be called into question (though I don’t recall seeing anything specific about cause(s) he supported or didn’t support; you?).
It came across to me that he was not someone who was working for our cause, but I am not sure. I was hoping a FAC member could help shed some light on this guy.
Thankfully I have not seen his name anywhere before.
When I first saw the offender’s picture I thought it was Adam Schiff.
I have seen this before and again in this article. People can get Life in prison in some cases for failing to register? I have sat in on murder cases where the person got 10 years of prison followed by 25 years probation.
Something is majorly wrong with this imbalance of justice and sentencing laws. We did our freaking time already.
Yep. There should not even be a crime of FTR. That single aspect alone, combined with the fact that it is a felony with ridiculous sentences, is enough to ensure that I will gravely retaliate for the Registries literally every single day. It just isn’t acceptable that my family should live and worry about being arrested for such idiocy. Anyone who supports that is an enemy combatant that I have declared war on.
Why are the sentences for FTR so harsh? If someone commits that “crime”, what actual harm or danger is there? In reality and not Registry Fantasyland?
None. There is no harm or danger. Registries do nothing useful so there is no effect.
In fact, I firmly believe that nearly all people who do Register are more dangerous just and only because of that. If a person does not Register, they are safer for all of us. But that fact that FTR is illegal probably does make a person “on the run” even more dangerous. So again, great job there Nanny Big Government (NBG). You are always there to make things more dangerous and dumb.
If NBG weren’t such pathetic idiots, they could get rid of FTR completely and make a HUGE step toward making Registries more moral. The simple solution is to require NOTHING of anyone that they want to list on their Registries. Nothing at all. NBG would be responsible for collecting ALL of the data that they wanted for their Registries. Then they might actually be doing some of the “verifying” and “monitoring” that they lie about all the time. If they actually did something.
These criminals regimes cry and cry and whine all the time about how they have to depend on the awful “$EX offenders” to give them accurate information. So fck them. Collect it yourselves, you lazy fcks. Do some actual work. Then all those problems and the immoral, idiotic, illegal FTR is gone. Poof.
I also think the sentences for FTR are so harsh because Registry Nazis are little people with very low self-esteem. They are control freaks that can’t handle if people disrespect them. They lose their tiny little minds when that happens. That is hilarious but I think that is a big reason for the harsh sentences.
I was in therapy with a guy who got 60 years probation for his offense. How can a person’s behavior be “bad” enough to warrant 60 years, but not bad enough to not deserve prison?
Although that sucks, I would do 60 years of probation over 10 years of prison. At least you can be home with your family and eventually appeal or go back for a modification.
I say if you can handle a stint in prison you can handle anything life throws at you. My time made me start traveling the World. I visited 9 countries before they started turning offenders away with all the passport notification crap. I ran my passport through the shredder after that.