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I am planning a trip to TX for a nine day stay since 7 days is the requirement to register ; how do or do they even check to see how many days you are in the state of TX. I can plan for an overnight trip to LA in the middle of the nine days. So do they check the airlines looking at flight into and then out of a state how closely would the state of TX moderate this. Thanks if anyone has the experience … PS I have a COR from CA and will carry a copy with me
What if I have to travel for work into a 5day state and don’t have time to go and register between 7:30am and 6;30pm? Police registry is not available 24hrs by any stretch of the imagination. I have to go. I will be working long hours. I will be traveling within that state. Not releasing details of my business travel on here for obvious reasons.
Due to circumstances beyond my control, I registered this year on my last day (5 days before/after your birthday). It was a Sunday. I was told they only do registrants during working days and Sundays wasn’t one of them. As a result I was turned away. Before I left, I told them I was worried because the next day I’d be out of compliance and ripe for arresting. They reassured me that the conversation we were having was being taped and as long as I come in the next day. What gets me is….is the official word “5 days before and after your birthday”…or is it “five WORKING days before and after your birthday”. This is confusing me big time.
Anybody having isssues with maintaining work in California? It seems as though there’s a huge disconnect between using registration against us for employment on background checks. For some reason, background checks will still use doj sex offender checks against us for employment even if we’re passed the checks otherwise.
Interesting statistic: there are an estimated 70,000,000 detached homes in the United States. There are approximately 1,000,000 registered people. That equates to 69,000,000 homes occupied by non-registered people. If there are 50,000 new convictions for sex offenses each year and 95% of those convictions are committed by non-registered people, then that makes 47,500 individuals committing offenses. If each of these individuals live in a unique home that makes the chances of someone living near a potential sex offender a .065% chance of being attacked or injured by a neighbor. Using the same statistics for registered people there is a .0001% chance that you live near a potential sex offense. That means we as registrants should be terrified of the Un-registered potential offenders as they are a greater risk to us. I demand legislation to protect us from this over 600% greater risk to us than us to them. The unregistered have already stated we have the right to feel secure. I’m demanding the right to not be sexually attacked or injured. They should be forced from their homes so we can feel safe.
This of course is a parody in the interest of mocking these idiots…..
@Don’t tread on me, there are 5 states with a population under 1 million. While this may confine people where the feds wanted them, in one state, and is almost impossible to do but what if everyone on the registry moved to one of these states, took over the state government, ended the registry and refused to cooperate with anything related to SORNA?
The news story making its rounds now is regarding registered persons using dating apps.
Here are a couple of talking points to remember.
I have looked into this ProPublica/ Columbia Investigations/ Buzzfeed expose, and none of the three reporters listed have ANY previous criminal justice experience at all. In fact, two were recent Columbia grads and this was their ONLY published article.
Secondly, this report only found about 150 instances of someone ACCUSED or convicted of a sex offense initiated from an online date, and only 10% of those cases involved someone on the registry.
Finally, the article invokes a woman named Carole Markin. She wrote multiple books on online dating disasters and actually ran an organization that was some form of bad dates support group long before she claimed that she was raped by an SO on a dating app. She’s suspicious to say the least.
A quick FYI for anyone headed to MN. I recently had cause to be there for someone needing attention at Mayo Clinic. I checked in with local PD (Rochester, MN) and was told as long as I didn’t exceed 14 days, I didn’t need to notify them in any manner (“we get a lot of these”). If you’re going to be in-state beyond 14 days, you have 5 days to let them know. I know this is what’s mentioned in the doc on here, but I thought it helpful to share what I was personally and firsthand told.
Finally free after 7 years of federal supervised release. Hoping to be able to get more involved in the cause now that that burden is lifted.
I’ve started wondering how is Megan’s Law not a violation of our right to privacy as guaranteed in the California Constitution and on the US Constitution as imposed (originally) from Griswold v. CT?
Another way the registry could help others when the fine print says you can’t use it beyond what it’s intended for. No, the article didn’t say registry, but since the info is public…
Controversial facial recognition company claims it has a First Amendment right to your public photos
https://mashable-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mashable.com/article/clearview-ai-ceo-first-amendment-right-facial-recognition-data-scraping.amp
Start voting and let people know you for this candidate… Than pop the top and say i am a sex offender!!! And this candidate is great so vote for him! Watch how those fools start changing laws when you asking for votes for them. Make me a monster you can join me!!!
Does anyone have any thoughts on this?
Based on this news story I saw, A SVP in SD who have been completely compliant since 2014 (as reported) was arrested for a FTR because those who managed him, a for profit healthcare company, failed to take him to his registration appointment. The DA never filed the charges for FTR because it was not his fault.
This raises a few questions and kind of sets an example for the future… most of all this establishes a precedent that if a registrant cannot get himself to his appointment and is reliant on other means of transportation for physical reporting because he is unable to get there on his own, charges shouldn’t be filed. Such as, if you cant drive anymore and there are no public transportation or other methods to the office from your place of residence, you cant get an FTR for not being able to report for that reason?!
More so, why is this even a flippin news story!
https://www.kusi.com/district-attorney-says-liberty-healthcare-failed-to-keep-terms-of-release-for-sexual-predator/
WARNING ABOUT SCAM:
There is a scam working where a person calls you and states that they are from the and you were sent a certified letter, which was signed by someone at your home. The letter was a demand that you come into the agency to give new fingerprints, photo, etc and that you did not show up. They say that a warrant is being issued, etc. THIS IS A SCAM!
When you call their number it is answered as “Sex Offender Registion”. They never got to asking for money to delay the warrant action, but that is where they are going.
They scared the life out of me and my wife. Don’t fall for it..
I have tough on this topic before, with no response. I would like to see a organization like here would develop a simple two-side small one page tract, with facts about former Sex Offenders that we can print and put in laundry mats, post on community bulletin boards or any other opportune places so the public can be informed. Yes, there will be many throw out and torn down, however, people will read and talk about them.
Hello. I cannot seem to find the answer I’m looking for.
I was convicted of 311.11a in March of 2010. My wife and I really want to move to Nevada (las Vegas area). I know I like have to follow their laws, but what happens if California successfully drops CP down to tier 1 and I am allowed to get out of registration? If I stay until I’m off registration will I need to register in Nevada? If I move before stopping registration, would I still have to register once my time is up in California?
Thanks guys!
I am about to take a college class at a local high school. It is the only one offered and it is required for the degree I am trying to obtain. I would really love to avoid it, but I can’t. Can anyone help me as to who I need to approach about this. Do I go to the college campus police? Do I bypass them and go to the high school? Do both? I would like as few people to know while staying within the law, of course. I am not on parole or probation. Thanks in advance for any help.
Did anyone visit Puerto Rico recently? Did you register there? How exactly was that done or if you didn’t register did you have any problems while you were there or when you left? I think the law is very unclear about whether short vacation visitors are required to register. The chart under the Legal tab above says you don’t.
I travel to work as a contractor, can anyone tell my that if I register in South Carolina and stay for 4-6 weeks, will they remove me once I leave?
Because there are never enough:.
https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/02/14/new-law-will-create-registry-of-abusive-caregivers/
Another Probation/Parole like restriction in Utah for registered sex offenders, also codified under Probation and Parole.
https://le.utah.gov/~2020/bills/static/HB0344.html
Utah sex offender inmate uncovers state fraud of federal funds.
https://www.ksl.com/article/46719738/utah-falsely-obtained-50m-in-federal-criminal-justice-grants-lawsuit-says
I live in CA. Passed a background check for a new job (assuming because my charge is over 10 years old). My new employer has one client that’s a school. At some point I will get asked to trouble shoot a problem on a school campus. I know I will then have to tell my Supervisor I can’t be on a school campus (which is my only real restriction). But, I’m thinking ban-the-box law was there so we could have a fighting chance. When I have to tell my Supervisor I’m thinking less is more. Maybe I just say I was in some trouble over ten years ago and part of my problems included agreeing not to go on any campus. Do they have the right to then go look? I know it could happen of course…but would they legally have the right? If I don’t lie, but don’t completely disclose? Anyone have any experience or advice.
I interviewed someone for a position today and the interview went quite well. At the end of the interview, this person volunteered that a couple of years ago he was caught up in a to catch a predator style sting operation and had gotten convicted of a felony over it and is on probation and required to register. Since I know first hand how this is, I’m trying to figure out a way to get him hired. The employer obviously isn’t really the problem, the problem is probation. His probation restrictions require that any access he has to the internet be monitored by probation. Since the software required to do the job is specifically web-based, there is no way to not have to use the internet, sometimes on a tablet browser and sometimes on a desktop PC. For business reasons, there is just no way that monitoring of the type that they want to do would be allowed. If they just recorded visited websites that would be one thing, but they require access to every file on the PC effectively monitoring the entire business operation which is not going to be able to be allowed. Anyone have any ideas or is this guy just not going to be able to do this line of work?
Do you need some motivation? I do. Even though I am set for life financially, I have lately found my life basically empty, just doing what I need to do to stay alive; taking care of home, taking care of my dog, grocery shopping, paying bills, etc. Is there more to life than this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnEf8z1aZns