YAKIMA COUNTY, Wash. – The county has agreed to settle a lawsuit involving a man who was wrongfully listed as a sex offender.
Yakima County will pay local man Damian Garza Cantu $115,000 after someone else’s criminal convictions of third degree rape were mistakenly placed on his record.
Related links:
WA: County to pay $115K to man mistakenly listed as sex offender [floridaactioncommittee.org – 6/14/18]
It is a shame that this money won’t be taken only out of the pockets of the people in this criminal regime that support the $EX Offender Registries. The local politicians that promoted their Registry should pay it.
This proves that the ls is punishment!
I hope the
Idaho’s 134 anonymous sex offenders who brought the lawsuit have the option to refile the case if they can show the current laws caused them actual harm.
https://all4consolaws.org/2018/06/id-sex-offenders-say-idaho-law-hurts-them-judge-replies-prove-it/
Big deal! This is no worse than Price Club acccidentally listing someone as a member. Tax payers should be up in arms over such a frivolous lawsuit.
If it’s not harmful(punishment) to be listed on the registry, then this lawsuit has no merit. I find it very telling when the county chose to settle the lawsuit rather than fight it. Apparently, the powers that be in that county know full well that the registry is harmful to those listed, which is good because people are catching on. However, I wish they had fought it so that we could have yet another court decision acknowledging that being on the registry is harmful and therefore punishment.
Another firm, financial cost that should be thrown into EVERY lawyer’s arsenal as to the ACTUAL COST of being registered, and incorporating that cost with punitive intent. This is a HARD, TITANIUM-SOLID COURT DOCUMENT that dictates such. Sorry for shouting, but that’s the importance this needs to show.
This is proves that being on the registry causes irreparable harm by destroys one’s reputation, credibility and character. Not to mention being a soft target for assault and murder.
Yep AJ, O am hoping that by using a tiered system that it is unconstitutional if it is based off off conviction instead of risk assessment. We definitely need to work on this because you know the AG in my case is going to be “well, we have a legislative fix, it is call the tiered registry bill that take effect in 2021 which will let Plaintiff petition to be removed after blah blah years” Did SCOTUS say somewhere that it implies dangerousness without actual risk so it was unconstitutional?
THIS. IS. HUGE!!!!!!!!!!!!
A real court just put real dollar DAMAGES on being listed on the Sex Offender List!!!!!! Look, take this case to the courts and this PROVES that the court agrees that being on the list is damaging.
The KIMA TV article that announced this court settlement gave us just 5 sentences about it. For the full back-story about how Damian Cantu came to be on the registry and why this story is important, go to my article at https://registryreport.org/2018/06/14/county-agrees-to-pay-115000-to-man-mistakenly-listed-as-sex-offender/
The good news: Someone is finally admitting that being on the registry produces tangible, quantifiable harm. The bad news: Due to the confidentiality clauses of these kinds of settlements, no one will likely hear anything more about it.