The Center on Youth Registration Reform aims to eliminate the practice of placing children on sex offender registries in the United States. Using a zealous, unwavering, yet tactical strategy, the Center works to confront the fears and misconceptions about children that drove our country to include them in sex offender registration schemes, and transform the paradigm of how the criminal justice system responds to child sexual behavior. Full Article
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I am glad this is happing. However, it would be best to eliminate the registry for everyone. Most on the registry were childish fools. The hard core, the ones that do not learn or care, just, need to be locked up.
This is God’s work and those of us who are in a position to must support it financially. Yes, the registration scheme for adults is unjust. But it’s especially damaging to place children on the registry.