USA Today Fact Check: Some states require special IDs for people with a sex offense

People with a past sex offense are required to have their driver’s license branded in some states, and in the states where such laws have been overturned, it has been due to free speech concerns, not privacy.

Why is this branding necessary when so much personal information for registrants is already available online for the public?

Kansas and at least eight other states have laws on the books requiring registrants’ licenses to be branded.  Florida requires some registrants to have “SEXUAL PREDATOR” spelled out on their IDs.

We wait to see if the U. S. Supreme Court is going to hear the Louisiana case.  Compelled speech!

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73 thoughts on “USA Today Fact Check: Some states require special IDs for people with a sex offense

  • September 21, 2021

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    I sent this to a house rep Dean fisher he wanted presents a bill to put ppl on the registry who have never been on the registry just have a offence on there record

    Greetings

    ppl who was released from the registry back in 2005 fwd. to their release dates and you think you can just put someone back on cause you think it will help public safety it wont.. that has been proven..by statistics. These ppl done there time all the way down this unjust road of amendment violations and you always here about Karma, the way this world is going now ppl accused ppl of sex crimes and getting away with it.

    When are you planning to present a bill to keep Registered ppl singled out by making them ride on the back of a bus or signs telling them that they have there own drinking fountains or church’s? all this is Discrimination and MLK proved that as well.

    keep this in mind as well 90 state lawmakers accused of sexual misconduct since 2017 all its going to take is a vindictive wife of a person whos’ registry has expired many yrs ago, to accuse you of this… or 1 of your family members, then what you submit a bill to abolish the registry in its entirety
    as you can see very well, a video took Bill Dix down for an innocent kiss
    So who is watching the watchers?

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  • September 21, 2021

    people will never suceed in life nor get ahead of the game with this kind of branding.. might as well send them back to the 60s and toss burning crosses in there yard and have ropes and tall trees cause this is just setting things back many yrs to and Era Of MLK and what he fought for the freedoms of the people of color

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    • September 21, 2021

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      Or what my ancestors went through being rounded up and sent to reservations, having their land stolen, and treated like 3rd rate citizens, or not citizens at all from a country they were born in.

      Back in the 70s I spent an entire weekend at the Seminole tribes reservation. I guess I am spoiled but I found their way of life very boring.

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    • September 21, 2021

      Experenced

      Or the way my people were treated when their land was taken and were sent off to small plots of land and treated like 3rd rate citizens.

      Back in the 1970s I visited the Seminole tribe in South Florida. I spent a weekend there. That was back when Billy was the chief. I guess I am spoiled but I did not like the food and their way of life was rather boring LOL

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    • September 23, 2021

      But that’s exactly what they want, so it is working perfectly as they see it. They don’t want you to succeed, nor do they want you to become a productive citizen in society. That would show the unnecessary need for the registry, and in Florida, that is big big money.

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      • September 23, 2021

        Florida isn’t a place I’d put money on doing the right thing. It’s a casino where the house always wins and cards are stacked against you. Moving or fighting against the casino is the only way for it to see bankruptcy. Money is the only thing Florida understands.

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        • September 23, 2021

          I’ve been saying that for years. With no income tax, Florida will do anything to bring money in. That is why they refuse to let anyone off the registry. Florida doesn’t care about resident safety, they only care about that Federal money for such an inflated registry.

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          • September 23, 2021

            Follow the money. IF they truly cared about making people safer, then rehabilitation and reintegration will work far better than the public doxxing database, er SORNA. Defund the Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering, and Tracking https://smart.ojp.gov/ and watch states collapse their registries.

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  • September 20, 2021

    I thought I could maybe get out of this mess by trying to move to one of the Cherokee Nation reservations. Even though they are a
    sovereign nation, I found out they also have a sex offender registry.

    This is what they sent me:

    Sex Offender Registry

    Pursuant the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 and the 2008 Cherokee Nation Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act, any convicted sex offender who lives, works, or attends school on “Indian Country” within Cherokee Nation’s 14 County Jurisdiction must register as a Sex Offender with Cherokee Nation, in addition to any other state, territory, or tribal registration.

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  • September 20, 2021

    Florida sex offender’s have a statue number marked on the drivers license if your on the registry. Its not enough that you have many other restrictions imposed on you by the state. Your only form of identification is marked to single you out when its requested for all the world to see.

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  • September 20, 2021

    So if it’s now okay to compel speech from those required to register, how long before it’s required for everyone? That’s exactly what a vaccine passport is. HIPPA be damned!

    Once freedom of speech, or in our case, from speech, is lost, America will have become a “banana republic.”

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  • September 20, 2021

    Did you see the two idiots who said:
    “Ask their victims if it was fair” and “Fair went out the window when they broke the law”.

    Unfortunately I got banned from Twitter by the Almighty Rasputin Clan for apparently hurting some snowflake’s feels in an argument on there.
    Someone with access to their Twitter account to respond and ask them: What “victims” exist for someone who got caught peeing behind a bush? Or the couple that got caught gettin’ it on in the backseat? Or the adults who “offended” when they were children themselves with that thing called “sexting”?

    People who say the idiotic shit the first two commenters said are obviously fans of TV crime show propaganda. They need to be schooled. And not necessarily in a nice way. They’re arrogant so be arrogant right back at them. Leave them speechless. I’m 100% certain if you used the examples I have as questions to ask them, the only thing these brainless zombies would say back is the ever so clever “WeLl yOu mUsT bE oNe ThEn”.

    To which I would say: Just like your kid might be one someday.

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    • September 21, 2021

      So many people get “offended” for things that don’t even affect them. Reminds me of those Puritans or those under Sharia.

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