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ACLU files lawsuit over CA Proposition 35's sex offender provisions
Proposition 35, which passed with 81 percent of the vote Tuesday, enacts harsher penalties for persons convicted of crimes related to human trafficking, a concept that gained broad support in polls and at the ballot box. But a less-noticed provision in the measure requires registered sex offenders to disclose to authorities aliases (email addresses and screen names) and service providers they use online.
Do people really believe that sex offender registries and the like really protect us from harm? Do people not realize that recidivism rates among sex offenders is only about 5.3 percent but that about 68 percent of released non-sex offenders are rearrested for another crime (both sex and non-sex offenses)?
Do we really have to continue demonizing people once they have served their debt to society?
I don't get it...
Re: ACLU files lawsuit over CA Proposition 35's sex offender provisions
I don't think the registries really do diddly squat to protect people. I mean just because a sex offender doesn't live near you doesn't mean they don't go to the same Target at you or work at the auto repair shop down the street. You never really know who or how close a sex offender might be so I'm not sure that simply knowing that Jim X down the street is one makes you that much safer.
I also hate them because of the way our laws are written. A sex offender is a sex offender regardless of the circumstance. I know of a slightly slow young man who at 17 had sex with a young lady he thought was 16. Turns out she was 13 and while she verbally consented to the deed, she cannot legally consent so he is now convicted of rape of a minor. That follows him now forever. Another good example is the Rob Lowe case. He was in a bar that required you to show ID to get in. So under our existing laws, even if you asked someone to show you their ID before you had sex (ha!), the fact that the ID was fake wouldn't matter and you are guilty of a sex crime if the person is under a certain age (as high as 16 or 17 in a lot of states).
Until we get better with the laws we already have, I don't care for more restrictive ones.
Thanks Snp...you were the only one with the guts to respond.
Yes, I agree there are different degrees of sex offenses and with the registry they are all lumped together.
I believe ALL people should have a right to try and get their life back on track after they have paid their debt to society and have been released from prison. Can you imagine how hard it is to find a job when you are on the registry? And getting a job means a better chance of living a productive life and staying out of future trouble.