The laws requiring the names of convicted sex offenders nationwide to be catalogued, and available to the public, bear the names of children sexually assaulted and murdered by predators who had committed sex offenses before. The goal was to prevent the same from happening to other children.
The Jacob Wetterling Act. Megan’s Law. The Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act.
The intent of the laws may be unassailable. But throughout the country, they have largely sequestered sex offenders in low-income neighborhoods. Full Article
“There is growing doubt about whether sex offender registries protect children — or anyone. “Virtually no well-controlled study shows any quantifiable benefit from the practice of notifying communities of sex offenders living in their midst,” Eli Lehrer, president of the nonprofit research organization R Street Institute, wrote recently in National Affairs, a publication of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.”
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A conservative think tank putting out this message? Excellent!
Side note: I’ve made my semi-regular check on Rankin to look for progress. Nothing as of 16:00 MDT.
The intent of the law unassailable.
That human privacy has been forced subservient government database machines is hardly unassailable and I will prove it in an FTR. Who made it alright to stockpile citizens data on these machines? Congress did using the sex offender as the scapegoat for necessity in legit gov interest concern. Applied first wholly as a state’s right but abducted by federal surveillance saints to maintain the elites political security. All of it right under the surface in the Mueller probe & FISA warrant misuse. What being the long and short of it? The Don doesn’t get indicted but the surveillance saints techniques and technologies get to remain hidden, or at least undisclosed to the general public.
Bullshit theory? Why is it some internet porn cases get dropped when defense lawyers demand discovery upon the electronic surveillance utilized to gain indictment. Privacy violation by firms (FB, Raytheon, Google, Offender Watch etc) too was promoted the the virtue signaling in the DOE03 SCOTUS rulings. So if you wonder why folks are being forced into the ghettos look to your leadership and remember history. We’ve seen it before.
Another excellent article challenging the wisdom and utility of public sex offender registries and related restrictions on residency. One of a number of such articles in recent weeks calling this practice into question. I applaud the author for such a well-written piece.
The word is getting out. Awareness is growing. We need more thoughtful pieces like this. We need more champions. It’ll take a continual effort to convince the public, and even more to come to the notice of legislators.
AJ, in denial,
You don’t do social media? As if posting here isn’t a form of participation in social media!
Posting here is exactly that – a use of social medial! You and I are each banned from FB, not by law but by TOS. Therefore gov and big media are engaged in collusion to abridge speech and peaceful assembly. all4 consolaws.org & NARSOLs exposure on FB would certainly be much greater if TOS was not prohibitive.
Today I called C-SPAN and got on the air. Called the fed gov out on Wetterling act ex post wording and use. SCOTUS too for upholding it. And the indenture of humans to gov government databases.
Tomorrow I attend a court date for FTR, courtroom B, Rock County WI. I’m gonna crush them.