My State (NC) states that the Registry is not intended to be “Punitiv”, but Because I indiscriminately Downloaded porn in which some pictures were deemed of an underaged nature, I wear the Scarlet Letter of Sexual Exploitation of a minor. 1. No real or physical contact ever. 2. No intent or desire to make contact. 3. After a lot of tests judgement served that I am so low a threat that I could continue to reside with my own biological children and with my current step son. Yet a passport would have printed a vague message that tells the world that I actually did something to a child.
It bothers me that it continues to pressure RSOs to have to admit to, and accept wording about them that has nothing to do with there actual crime.
Hey an illegal drug manufacturer / dealer who’s drugs affected or even caused damage to a child can be punished, do his time, released, and in time reintegrate back into society. But not and RSO. It needs to change with true education of the public and pressure for change / better definition within the legal system.

I don’t need to read anything you need to stop posting false info One there is no place for a person to comply with IML if they are not on a registry and two in multiple place it states a person needs to bye on a registry to receive an identifier and 3 Show me one person who is not a registered sex offender that has an identifier you can’t because there is none

Debo – you need to read the codified IML: https://www.smart.gov/pdfs/resources/International%20Megan%27s%20Law-As%20Codified.pdf

Covered sex offender. Except as otherwise provided, the term “covered sex offender” means an individual who is a sex offender by reason of having been convicted of a sex offense against a minor.

(The term “convicted” has the meaning given the term in section 111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16911))

Statement by the Press Secretary on H.R. 515, H.R. 4188, S. 2152

On Monday, February 08, 2016, the President signed into law:

H.R. 515, the “International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders,” which (1) authorizes the Department of Homeland Security’s Angel Watch Center and the Department of Justice’s National Sex Offender Targeting Center to send and receive notifications to or from foreign countries regarding international travel by registered sex offenders; and (2) requires the Department of State to include unique identifiers on passports issued to registered sex offenders;

I think you need to re read the part that says (3) Covered sex offender
Except as otherwise provided

Why would they even add the part and is required to register?
What you are implying makes no sense at all.

Not sure you are correct…
Under the IML, “the term ‘covered sex offender’ means an individual who—(A) is a sex offender, as defined in section 16935b(f) of Title 42; and (B) is currently required to register under the sex offender registration program of any jurisdiction.” 22 U.S.C. § 212b(c)(1). 42 U.S.C. § 16935b(f) was transferred to 34 U.S.C. § 21503, which incorporates the IML’s definitions, codified at 34 U.S.C. § 21502, which further defines the term “covered sex offender” as “an individual who is a sex offender by reason of having been convicted of a sex offense against a minor.” 34 U.S.C. § 21502(3). “The term ‘sex offense against a minor’ means a specified offense against a minor, as defined in section 111 of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 (42 U.S.C. 16911).” Id. at 21502(10)(A).

Please correct what you are implying The definition you are referring to is sex offender it is not the definition of “a Covered sex offender” Big difference. If you are no longer required to register then you will not receive an unique identifier on your passport and IML is moot.

Yes Karen I was thinking the same thing. So rapist and other sexual crimes against adults are not covered. It is just bull crap. My charge is attempted and there was no victim and those pieces of info always gets lost.