Prompted by two adverse appellate court decisions and a lawsuit springing from them, the board of supervisors on Tuesday gave tentative approval to amendments to the county code that would strike down certain provisions defining where registered sex offenders may visit when children are present.
The changes, due for a final vote on Feb. 10, would repeal the so-called “presence” provisions in the county code, language that prevents sex offenders from being within 300 feet of various locations where children might congregate. Full Article
1. Not all sex offenses involve children
2. Not all sex offenses involving children are hands on offenses
3. Not all hands on offenses are necessarily hands on
4. Not all sex offenses require nudity or sex acts of any kind
5. Some sex offenses are sex offenses in one place but not another
6. Prepubescent children are on the sex offender registry
7. Prepubescent teens are also on the registry
8. The so called laws are flawed anyway because preventing future crimes has little to do with monitoring former offenders and a lot to do with stopping people from becoming offenders or victims in the first place.
9. Given how much research has been conducted to treat or provide counseling for offenders one would reasonably believe the mental health community has a firm grasp on how offenses can happen. So why isn’t that knowledge being used to create pre offense awareness and diversion from committing offenses? If its because no one cares enough to stop more victims from being created then society as a whole is as much at fault for future offenses as the offenders themselves and that is beyond tragic.
These “laws” are like a game of ping-pong they lessen one and tighten another so no progress is ever really made if you are truthful about it.
In reality it is totally unfair to make sex offenders (with the obvious exception of serial predators) be on a registry and certainly with no way off even with decades of “good behavior”!
So now you can go to a park…but you can’t internationally travel. Ping-pong!
“anti-predator ordinances??????” I’ve never preyed upon anyone!
We have to comment online in the article to get people’s attention and educate them. I did. Next?
I like that … Sounds like toads croaking that’s what they are bunch of toads croaking and others following