California took an important step toward ending the abusive practice of putting kids on sex offender registries when Gov. Jerry Brown signed Senate Bill 384, which allows juveniles to petition for their removal after five or 10 years. Full Opinion Piece
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Kids? NO ONE deserves to be on the registry, especially if they’re a first time offender. Its beyond me how people can find it cruel and unusual for a child, but perfectly fine for an adult when WE have to find jobs and put roofs over our children’s heads! I’ve been told by apartments in Georgia and North Carolina that no decent apartment in the state will lease to someone on the registry. I even had apartments tell me they would overlook my conviction since its almost 20 years old, but once I bring up registration they immediately tell me they will have to decline me since I’m on the registry. How can one even justify this treatment being ok for an adult? The government and many citizens seem to think We don’t have families as well!!!!!!
No one belongs on a registry. The registry does not work. This has been proven. It is a FACT
No need…Period
Let’s hope the rest of the world finally accepts that FACT in 2018!
link the video, I would love to read it…
They don’t care about the youth, the California governor just signed a bill (sb312) allowing all juvenile offenses the right to seal your juvenile record as long as your case didn’t result in registering. All 707(b) offense (violent offenses) murder, kidnapping, assault with a deadly weapon, armed robbery all can now petition the juvenile courts to seal their records as if they never committed a crime, But if you were convicted of a 707(b) offense and it resulted in registering you are barred from sealing your record. Infact only Sex offenders are barred from this new change of the law. Which seems pretty clearly to be a violation of equal protection laws and also cruel and unusual punishment as they have been singled out even though they were all previously denied for the exact same reason of being 707(b) offenders. The senate, on their own, made a new class of 707(b) offenders even though there’s no law on the books separating these crimes into separate classes. It even goes further to deny equal protection, if you have your case dismissed or reduced to a lessor crime you can Petition the court To seal your record as if you aren’t a 707(b) offender… except if your case resulted in registering where you are still treated as if your a 707(b) offense dismissed case or whatever. Why did they do this? Because in California if you are able to seal your record, then you no longer are required to register. So even if a judge deems you rehabilitated, a probation department does a background check and finds you rehabilitated, and your record reflects your case dismissed, the law makers believe s.o.’s are a violent autoimmune disease uncurable and dangerous forever! Maybe this website
Could look into this injustice.