Days before a Nevada bill changing the sex offender registry goes into effect, the Metropolitan Police Department suggested ways to avoid anticipated large crowds at Las Vegas police headquarters.
People who need to file or request police reports may do so at any of Metro’s 10 substations, said Lisa Hank, director of Metro’s Police Records and Fingerprint Bureau. That way people can avoid crowds and longer wait times potentially caused by Assembly Bill 579, which takes effect on Oct. 1. The bill requires sex offenders to report to police and be fingerprinted more frequently at Metro’s headquarters, located at 400 S. Martin L. King Blvd. Full Article
Total dumbasses. More “checking in” does absolutely jack squat for public safety. In my case, it does the opposite. I fully expect that is the case by far, overall.
Oh well, they are going to need more employees. They are going to need to grow Nanny Big Government (NBG) even bigger. That is what most of them want anyway so I guess that is good for them. We can’t have enough government employees doing stupid, useless “work”.
Now just when are they going to get the rest of their NBG Registries created? Don’t they want to at least pretend that they have some credibility?
The devolution of the U.S. continues. Never was such a great country and it is dropping by the day.
I’ve registered into Vegas many times. It takes 3 and 1/2 hours. they finger print me each time. I’ve asked the data cop why each time, I was told in case of changes… I asked “like what” she responded “like if you get a finger cut off or something”. If they do all resident registrants every time, it is indeed lots of xtra time. Reminds me of the dentist trying to pay off the x-ray machine.
This is one of the unintended consequences to a “tiered registry.” While a tiered registry may *seem* like a better alternative to a previous (lifetime) system, it also has the potential to “reclassify” people to seem more of a “risk” and/or “danger” than the previous system—while also requiring more in-person appearances at the police department—when said persons’ alleged risk or danger are either based on years-old conviction(s) and/or a bogus risk assessment instrument (i.e. Static-99).
In the end, a tiered registry only grows government corruption and adds to law enforcement budget because more personnel are needed to “reclassify” registrants, process in-person registrations of registrants, prosecute registrants who are not compliant, and oppose “petitions” for relief. Subsequently, more vested, usually personal (career) interests are invested into the legitimacy of the registry itself—and we have the growing monster that we have now.
These “tiered” legislative schemes are designed only to very cleverly grow and legitimize the registry itself.
We’ve had the same problem in Reno. They won’t want to take information and dont know the laws we are trying our best to comply with. We call the case worker at the Department of Public Safety and she makes sure to answer our questions and keep my boyfriend up to date. Went from 0 to 1.He has not done the classes yet. Does anyone know a good therapist in Reno. Want him to get something out of it if possible. Its been close to 30 years. California didn’t tell him to register, he started 11yrs ago in Nevada. We need a good attorney in California ,any advice. We are going with McLetchie and Shell in Nevada.
Its crazy. Constantly changing laws, having to petition in each state. My head spins, get anxiety and panic attacks.
I already moved out of state to Oregon, where it seems they have a more sensible approach to the SORNA law. I was Tier 1 when I moved; I could not hack it if I was listed as a Tier 3, with the 3-mo repeat visits to register. I don’t have a job yet, just kind of waiting so there might be a successful challenge to this draconian law, but I am certain, at this point, that it will go into effect on Monday.
The implementation of this law sent me into fight or flight mode; I literally quit my job and fled.
Me Too. Fu ck the Feds and the red neck Nevadans. In Reno, I raised my son as a single dad, own a home and lived next to an elementary school for over 15 years, involved in the community, volunteer, never on the website, and now they say i’m a pedophile.
Quit a 6 figure job and moved backed to California.
But whom I’m really pissed at is the senator shooter because he didn’t take shooting practice before he went to softball practice.
First time poster, but have been following this site for a long time. It really does take about 3-3.5 hours to register in Las Vegas where the location is like a CA DMV. You draw a number only to wait forever to get called unless you are in line early in the morning. Normally there is only 1 window serving registrants. Once you get to the window, the admin takes forever to update your information. You can easily be at a window for 30-45 minutes, then they want you to get back in line to be called for the fingerprinting, which again can take a lot of time. This is just downright ridiculous as I have registered in other states and cities and am in and out in about 20-30 minutes. Reno and Sparks to the north are much more efficient in the process.
Like another poster here, I am currently a tier 1 in Nevada, but will be moved to tier 3. I am glad I moved out of that state to Oregon, although they currently still control me on parole here as Nevada added lifetime supervision on top of my sentence which is another BS issue.
None of this makes any sense! It increases their workloads, increases the chances of re-arrest (I can barely remember my registering date) and in the laymen’s view, creates a feeling of fear wondering why now people must register more often?