“How I Got on the Sex Offender List” — By a Mom of Three

Sometimes when I post about the Sex Offender Registry, I get comments like, “Those scum don’t deserve to EVER live a normal life!” This note below is to remind us that a study of 17,000 people on the registry by the The Georgia Sex Offender Registration Review Board found that about 5% were “clearly dangerous,” and 100 could be classified as sexual predators. Not that the other thousands and thousands of registrants were all Romeo and Juliet cases, or teens who sexted. Just that most people who have been arrested…

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MN: Minnesota’s Rational Indefinite Commitment of Sex Offenders

Minnesotans who receive the label “sex offender,” and are determined either a “sexually dangerous person” or “a person with a sexual psychopathic tendency,” now face the potential for life incarceration in a civil commitment facility. The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals recently held the North Star State’s policy of locking up allegedly dangerous persons for an indeterminate period of time is completely rational and rooted in legitimate government interests. Full Article Related MN: Appeals Court – Sex Offender Program Constitutional (ACSOL) Collection of recent articles…. http://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2017/01/06/minnesota-sex-offender-program http://www.startribune.com/let-s-use-court-ruling-to-look-anew-at-msop/409940485/ http://www.startribune.com/civil-commitment-ruling-a-setback-for-civil-rights-reforms/409940215/ http://www.postbulletin.com/opinion/our_view/our-view-sex-offender-program-still-needs-reform/article_8c195f7f-7a43-5b9d-9794-8e05ce7c966d.html http://www.startribune.com/appeals-court-got-it-wrong-in-upholding-indefinite-commitment-of-sex-offenders/409835015/

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