R Street just signed a letter calling for commonsense reform of the California sex-offender registry, based on a bill proposed by our friend and Legislative Advisory Board member Sen. Joel Anderson, R-Alpine. Full Article
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“…it’s unjust, cruel and…” Unjust and cruel like in punishment?
After reading the letter, it seems all these organizations want to do away with registration for only “low risk” offenders. Low risk makes a good sound bite. But I feel it’s important to note that people will be flagged “high risk” because of the STATIC 99. The STATIC 99 is not at all a fair way to put a person it a specific tier.
The Problem with the registry is how it has been used as a means under color of law to violate fundamental rights of the once convicted and their families. Example: I saved my son’s life twice once from drowning and once from choking but in April 2012 in Orange County California the Board of Supervisors passed a law kicking me and other registrants out of parks, beaches and harbors without regard to our rights as parents. There was no history of registrants violating in parks and beaches but there is a history of children getting hurt in parks and beaches. My child doesn’t deserve to have his parent available as his first line of protection because he’s my child. They say the registry is not punitive but by its nature how can be anything other than punitive? What is more punitive than placing a registrant’s child in harms way by removing their parent from being with them in public places like parks and beaches? History has looked hard for that perfect group to target, well they found it in the EX-sex offender. Who would dare stand up for a registered sex offender? To do any kind of harm to them is easily sold off as being for public safety and protection of children. In the deep south the slave owners would hang a young male slave on a barn door to be whipped to show the “respectable people” how they (certain politicians) kept their slaves in line. People like Senator Connie Leyva are still doing the same thing by kicking registrants off their child’s school grounds with bills like SB-26. The effects of such legislation is to empower administrator to say well we have no escorts so you can’t go to your child’s school events. If they did go the child would be marginalized and harmed socially. What the Registry does is create a climate that punishes families…oddly families are usually the ones victimized. Now because of the punitive nature of the registry harming families most crimes may go unreported because of the registry. A boy in Alabama hung himself after streaking at a Home Coming Football game because he was threatened to be placed on the sex offender registry. Kids do stupid things like mooning a friend, streaking and sexting…the boy probably thought, ‘well my whole life is over anyway.. I’ll never get a good job or housing so what did the registry do? The nature of it the registry steels hope and killed that boy. The Sex Offender Registry is a Living Death it is evil and it is wrong! Proverbs 16:25 “There is a way that seems right to a man but the end thereof is the ways of DEATH.” The Registry (again) is a Living DEATH it is Evil and it is Wrong! TRUTH
@Robert Curtis…..well said man.
Agreed, Robert. Of course, because of 70 years of hysteria and fear behind the California registry, incremental change is the only way to ultimately get rid of it. No court case will magically make it go away. We must prove that getting people off the registry–starting with tier 1 and 2–will not cause a wave of recidivism. That builds trust with the public, which then will incrementally accept more changes.
It’s a long-term emotional battle, not a logical one.
Roger I have to respectively disagree with the premise that no court case can change or eliminate the current unconstitutional registration scheme…just remember cases like the following have indeed changed our country and the courts are our only avenue to true justice since most of our politicians are corrupted and work in their own best interest. Janice could be renounced as one of the greatest civil rights leaders of the 21st century just as Marshall was during his fight for rights..Marshall showed incredible courage and I know that it took a lot of courage to get as far as we’ve got but the one case that can change the scheme can and will be presented sooner or later.
Brown v. Board of Education
However, the great achievement of Marshall’s career as a civil-rights lawyer was his victory in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. The class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of a group of black parents in Topeka, Kansas on behalf of their children forced to attend all-black segregated schools. Through Brown v. Board, one of the most important cases of the 20th century, Marshall challenged head-on the legal underpinning of racial segregation, the doctrine of “separate but equal” established by the 1896 Supreme Court case Plessy v. Ferguson.
On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” and therefore racial segregation of public schools violated the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment. While enforcement of the Court’s ruling proved to be uneven and painfully slow, Brown v. Board provided the legal foundation, and much of the inspiration, for the American Civil Rights Movement that unfolded over the next decade. At the same time, the case established Marshall as one of the most successful and prominent lawyers in America.
one case can “magically ” make the current registration scheme go away when it’s argued correctly..
agreed..and it is a tragedy of justice that scotus has not been challenged on that exact subject..I am still dumbfounded how no one has challenged that assertion. it’s like the big elephant in the room and everyone’s afraid to touch it…that started over 14 years ago and seems to have been pushed out to the fringes like that issue is irrelevant and has no merit….I know our contry is full of idiots but come on man.a frigging five year old can put two and two together and come up with four so why the he…can’t anyone see the big red truck and address the issue..it’s unbelievable…
Guys, let’s be positive! I’m still on the registry for a expunged misdemeanor that resulted summary probation!!!
-static 99 is only applicable if your a repeat offender within 10 years!
It’s not applicable to those crime free for 10 years or more?
We have low risk/moderate and high risk??
I just got off the conference call, i got the tell end of it, but i am glade that i heard a little, i am going to try to make it to the conference in LA, is there any hotel or motel nere by, that people who going to the conference could stay.
In September of 2011 I took a plea bargin for 3 years in prison and 3 years of parole. I was released in February of 2014. When I got out my parole officer informed me that I had to do 5 years. Then towards the end of the year he told me I have to do 20 years. And last month he told me that it is 10.
I want to know that if I recieved a plea bargain of 3 years of prison & parole how can they change that?
What can I do to fight this?
Any help will be great.
Thank you