The following is a screenshot of the front page of the official California Megans Law web site on November 14, 2012.
This is for your information only and NOT to be construed as legal advice. Please keep in mind that, past this page “Any person who is required to register pursuant to Penal Code section 290 who enters this web site is punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. (Pen. Code, § 290.46, subd. (k).)”
ATTENTION: November 9, 2012
Federal Court orders temporary stay of law enforcement collection of registered sex offenders e-mail(s), screen name(s), and internet service provider(s) pursuant to Proposition 35, the Californians Against Sexual Exploitation (CASE) Act. Until further notice, the DOJ and local law enforcement will not require registrants to submit this specific information.
You know I always wondered about just WHY it is illegal for a sex offender to look at a PUBLIC LIST that he may or may not be on. What is the logic? Oh wait, this is dealing with sex offender laws so there is NO logic involved. Never mind!
No seriously, can someone answer this question for real? Never mind that it is a PUBLIC LIST, but what if a sex offender simply wanted to check the accuracy of his own listing without having to ask his mother to do it for him?
My understanding of the “logic,” for lack of a better term, is to prevent us from using the site as a veritable LinkedIn or Facebook for RSOs.
I read a story in the newspaper years ago after the initial launch of the site of a guy who got a letter from another RSO asking him out on a date. The guy reported the letter to the police who in turn arrested the love lorn sender.
Of course, there are plenty of other do-gooder aggregate websites where you can see yourself if you are so inclined. I don’t know if this is permitted or not, but then again in this day and age I am not sure if I am even allowed to look at myself when I go to the can.
Myself and others have been harrassed heavily online at Offendex.com thanks to someone who thinks they can use the registry as their personal list of victims. The guy’s real name is Brent Marshall Oesterblad and it did take a lot of work to learn his real identity. So far, law enforcement hasn’t seem too interested in going after him just yet.. but maybe with the newest threats and actions taken by him, a phone call or two may be enough to get something going.
By placing internet identifiers into the database, it will be a matter of time before Mr. Oesterblad, along with others will be continuing harassment and stalking of those on the register.
At present, he’s taken out advertising using my mugshot to promote his online extortion business and harassment business.
They made that little law so people could not start networking to fight the unjust laws or the person or persons that had a brain fart when the law was contrude were trying to satisfy thier own fantasies of control. That clause is outdated.
That is simply insane. How can that be legal? (probably how a lot of this nonsense is legal). So let me understand this: someone has to register, but they are not allowed to check their own information to make sure it is accurate. It is a public list, so how can it be illegal for one person to visit a public website but not someone else? Finally, and this really ticks me off as well as reveals just how fake the motivation behind the whole Meagan’s Law site is, sex offenders are still human beings, who have families. There are a whole range of people with vast degrees of crimes that got them on this registry. *If* the purpose of the website is to inform people of *dangerous* people who live nearby, so they can protect themselves and their families, then why would a sex offender not have the same rights to protect themselves and their family?
According to the theory behind this law, there are dangerous people who can’t control themselves and may hurt people that live near them- so what this law says is, if you happen to be on that list then you and your family do not have the right to the protection that the information provides. The whole theory is flawed of course, but within the theory this doesn’t make any sense, and is saying that the government thinks it is perfectly fine if an rso hurts another rso or that person’s family.
How do they justify that?
All of this is so obvious and illogical that it boggles the mind (well my mind at least) how it still remains a law! That is the case with so many laws dealing with RSOs. Can someone please tell my why it is difficult to find lawyers to challenge these sorts of laws and who will take these to court?
I would really think that new lawyers would jump at the chance to work in this area of law. These would be high profile cases and yes, I know perfectly that many lawyers are only motivated by money (my defense attorney is a prime example of that) BUT I am sure that there must be some who are motivated by a real love of the law and would be willing to work not for money but simple to improve the legal system.
The law is a sham. First of all, who keeps the names? Where are they kept? Do the police share them with anyone? Who pays for the police, clerks, etc that do this work? Who checks to see if all a persons identities are listed? This is another feel good law they pass so a politician can make the public think they are safer. I wish a citizens group would file a suit against entities like the police who waste taxpayer money on worthless laws.
Regarding private companies that post information on line, I would love to see an agressive attorney contact a few thousand people who are listed on the web site, get a $20 donation from each, and file a class action law suit. Rather than paying someone $250 to get someone off the site, get a few thousand to sue for invasion of privacy, using a picture without permission, for something. Perhaps a district attorney could find a depraved indifference charge or something like that against the site and jail someone. It seems to me that the disclaimer of not using the information to harass could be used to target these companies. There has to be some legal way to fight back and hurt them in the wallet.
Pick Me! Here is What I have done,,, Poor man’s copyright Your Picture / Image & or have it done through the library of congress(“BEST but $35) Past that date “ANY SITE” using Your Image for any Profit without Your Permission!!!!! CAN BE SUED! Bruce Fein Now PICK ME! lol & When We Win & We would win eventually I’ll Give 1/2 To CA-RSOL
BTW EVERYTHING TYPED ON Your Personal Computer is auto. copyright That’s How they bust Sexter’s/ online chat’s are ALL ADMISSIBLE in a court of law like I said the smarter Your Phone the dumber You Are Who need a GPS just give the Guy’s an I phone Free! There’s Your GPS with a gyro that can make a 3D composite of your surroundings 24/7 & pinpoint within 10 Ft. of where You are and record and take picts all via remote Apps!? Why all the $ & Hype it’s just a shaming tool in My opinion as well as an annoyance and not exactly Hygienic either not to Mention TOTALLY Unconstitutional! George Washington would have had Who Ever invented or even thought of it ” Burned @ the stake For Witchery an’ Bedevilment of personal liberties, An’ then scatter their ashes to the 4 wind’s with a smile!
This is for your information only and NOT to be construed as legal advice. Please keep in mind that, past this page “Any person who is required to register pursuant to Penal Code section 290 who enters this web site is punishable by a fine not exceeding $1,000, imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding six months, or by both the fine and imprisonment. (Pen. Code, § 290.46, subd. (k).)”
It a public SITES !! HELLO once a california RSO click this and this is at the bottom of the webpage.
I think it’s call “entrapment “