https://reason.com/2022/01/31/kamala-harris-spreads-misinformation-on-human-trafficking/?utm_medium=email

Citing misleading statistics about human trafficking might not seem all that harmful at first glance. But giving a false impression of the scope of the problem leads to all sorts of harms, both personal and political. It creates the conditions for crazy conspiracy theories like those seen with QAnon believers and for ordinary people to panic about everyday interactions and “stranger danger.” It leads to attempts to Do! Something! that often wind up as crackdowns on poor people, sex workers, and immigrants. And it gives cover to officials who want an excuse for more policing and surveillance of everyone.

This is a very good point and well said. I too was tried and convicted several years before the registry was created. Looking back, I probably could have beat my case in a jury trial rather than taking the plea deal like my attorney suggested. At the very least, I would have stood a chance of never being placed on the registry. Had I known that years later I would be retroactively classified as a tier 3 with no hope of ever getting off it, I would have taken my chances with a jury trial.
I don’t understand how judges cannot see the truth that registries are punishment and violate multiple civil rights.

Tereto

And to add to your frustrations, our families suffer as well. The court try to say it us OUR fault we are suffering. NO SIR, the sentences we got were our fault (If you were actually guilty). The registry is NOT our fault and was not part of mine and many others sentences and were added after we were already sentenced.

So now our families have to be the “Creepy” family that lives at the end of the street. Our families have to endure feces thrown at our houses, tires slit, spray paint on our houses, Even in my case, bullets shot through our windows. And what did the cops do each time? “Um sir, just file a report online ok”.

Meanwhile the lady down the street who had a nail in here tire that she probably ran over, call the police stating someone must have targeted her and count them THREE cop cars showed up and spent 2 hours investigating.

Anyone who committed a crime while the registry was in place, got to use the registry in a plea deal. They may still have to be on it but got a chance to go to trial or get a lower sentence based on that.

Go backwards in time to folks like myself and many others. There was not a registry when my incident occurred. There was no registry when I was arrested. There was no registry during my 5 court appearances, nor at my sentencing.

I found out about the registry 3 months before I was to be released. If I had been released just 55 days sooner, I would not have had to registry. I never got a chance to challenge that in court, because it did not exist. That imbalance alone should be a cause for a ruling on punishment. And the retroactive application was based on whether you were still on sanctions or not once they came out.