MA: Lawmakers consider shining light on secret sex offenders

Secret sex offenders could soon be forced out of the shadows in Massachusetts.

The state considers Level 1 sex offenders a low risk to re-offend so information about them is not available to the public, but a bill under consideration on Beacon Hill would allow people to find out if a specific person is a Level 1 offender or if a Level 1 offender lives at a particular address. Full Article

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Don’t fret though, secret murders and secret drug dealers will be overlooked! Home Invaders are fine too along with every other type of Violent offenders….

Yet another evil legislator trying to get headlines for herself by using the words “S.O.”. These people make me sick!!!
ONE person who was a Level 1 screws up, and they try to throw the rest under the bus. Idiots!!!!

Let’s redefine sex offender to mean legislator. Legislators redefine words all the time to fit their agenda. Last night it was the redefined term for an unborn child to be a child created at conception, in a tax bill, paving the way to make all abortions at the federal level. So I propose the following: A sex offender is a person who holds a position with legislative powers who target registered persons for their own political gain. A sex predator is a person who holds any official position which targets registered persons for personal gain. I would also venture to redefine sexual gratification to mean repeated attempts to target registered persons over a period of time. This would cause anyone who targets registered persons to be considered sex offenders and sex predators. Now, to get them to sign it. Maybe label it the “Authorization to target sex preditors for harassment” and make it beefy and painful but then near the very end redefining sex offenders and sex predators to be them. Maybe they’ll sign that.

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“Secret” RCs? Umm, they’re not trying to hide or be sneaky…they’re trying to live as free humans. And technically, the information about them isn’t secret, it’s protected.
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Even though the state considers a Level 1 low risk, 5 Investigates discovered 65 percent of the 2,700 Level 1s have something in common with B______: they’ve been convicted of sex crimes against children.
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Okay, so what? How many have reoffended? Probably quite a low number…thus the reason they’re considered low risk in the first place! “5 Investigates” seems to want to take the angle that RC with an offense involving a child should never be a level 1. Another non-story being inflated into fear mongering.