IN: Northwest Indiana legislators support bills closing loopholes in sex offender laws

[chicagotribune.com – 1/25/19]

Northwest Indiana legislators said they are in support of bills looking to close some of the loopholes in the state’s sex offender laws.

One of those bills would ban sexually violent predators or offenders against children from working as a child care provider or baby sitter, while the other prevents a convicted sex or violent offender from petitioning for a name change.

“A lot of the issues that I’ve taken on are all things just like that, where there’s this loophole where it’s a small issue that needs to be fixed,” Rep. Ragen Hatcher, D-Gary, co-author of the name change bill, said.

A person who has been added to the state’s sex and violent offender registry could try to request a name change for various reasons, such as if they want to try to avoid the stigma of their conviction or had their case reported on in the news, according to Hatcher.

The law already prohibits a person confined in a department of correction facility from petitioning for a name change, and Hatcher said this bill would add convicted sex and violent offenders to that list.

Sen. Frank Mrvan, D-Hammond, proposed his own bill, which would ban sex offenders from working as a baby sitter, as a child care provider or for a child care provider, after hearing about an incident in Anderson, he said.

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As though registrants who want to change their name to avoid the registry and find more victims will go through proper legal channels to change their name anyway.

Are legislators required to have their common sense surgically removed before assuming office or when they announce their candidacy? How exactly does a person loses all common sense when becoming a politician?

But at the same time, that’s not always a bad thing. At one time, it was common sense that the sun orbited the earth and the earth was flat.

“A person who has been added to the state’s sex and violent offender registry could try to request a name change for various reasons, such as if they want to try to avoid the stigma of their conviction or had their case reported on in the news, according to Hatcher.”

Stigma = shaming = PUNISHMENT

Wouldn’t this fall under that who equal protection thing? Mothers who kill their kids can change their name, drug dealers can change their name, arsonists can change their name, but the kid who had sex with his girlfriend cannot.

Either way if you change your name you’d have to update the registry people of your new name.

IMHO,
“Closing a loophole” = Defiance of constitutional right.

We saw a commercial, political ad in the election of our Chief Justice in 2012. It boasted of her efforts to “close a loophole” concerning Sex offenders. The ad was referring to the Smith case inWI, a non sexual component used to require registration of SMITH!

Mr.Smith had taken a 17yr. old female marijuana dealer for a ride around the block while the deal was made. He was broke so he was attempting to not pay(rob her) for the sack. She wasn’t having that so a struggle began, and he hit the gas and began trying to push her out of the car. Police noticed and acted according, arrest for kidnapping. His crime not motivated by deviance. Mission creep EXPOSED.
It was about the DATBASE, and always was.
GOV uses thereof
It goes all the way to the top.