[thedenverchannel.com – 10/12/10]
DENVER (AP) — Colorado lawmakers have advanced a proposal to place fewer convicted juveniles on the state sex offender registry and partially seal the list from the public, officials said.
The draft was endorsed Thursday by an interim committee of lawmakers tasked with considering changes to how the state justice system treats people with mental illness, The Denver Post reported .
The proposed changes are informed by research showing that harshly penalizing juvenile sex offenders often does nothing to improve public safety or rehabilitate the offenders, lawmakers said. Currently, juvenile sex offenders could be required to stay on the registry their whole lives, limiting job and housing options, among other consequences.
“Why are we stigmatizing CHILDREN and preventing them from turning their lives around, and potentially ruining any productive and successful future they may have?” said state Sen. Robert Rodriguez, a Denver Democrat who chairs the committee. “We need to provide opportunities for change in behavior and a path to move forward.”
Replace the word “CHILDREN” with “ALL REGISTRANTS” and then we’ll have real changes!
So the registry is debilitating to juveniles, but not adults? It’s an acknowledgement that the registry is in fact punitive.
Their attempt to get ahead of the 10th circuit’s pending review of Judge Matsch’s Millard v. Rankin smack down? “Hey, we changed it a little bit so his opinion is no longer valid!”
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May we please stop the indenture of human Children to the state’s electronic database machine commonly referred to as the sex offender registry. It is a form of slavery because it works anti liberty as a framework for the affirmative restraints imposed by anyone and everyone. Convincing Federal Judges has limited effect in this situation ( see Michigan) precisely because the limits imposed by rejection 06, 11,’amendments on ex post grounds impact FED USE OF THE MACHINES To CIVILLY TRACK ALL on the basis of precaution. Electronic domestic surveillance has always been a hot button among the general public, and some healthy distrust remains in this American. The two parties cannot be trusted with these powerful machines without substantive oversight on many levels. Like the fisa COURTS, the system is vulnerable to misuse. While this article discusses a discussion being had; the fact remains registrants nation wide suffer M>H= null.The current story in WI.https://www.channel3000.com/news/second-protest-held-in-support-of-three-teens-convicted-of-sexual-assault/1131624053
But these sex offenders are dangerous for 10, 20, 30 years of life!! The public demands the sex offender registry for sex crimes!! Ugh
Kids with ZERO physical or sexual contact are placed on the registry here in Colorado. The case in sexting. It is wrong.