Republican leaders in Maryland’s House of Delegates on Friday released their legislative priorities for 2019, including a state income tax cut, a registry for violent repeat offenders, and single-member districts in the General Assembly.
Flanked by fellow Republicans, Anne Arundel Del. Nic Kipke, the House’s minority leader, and Baltimore County Del. Kathy Szeliga, the minority whip, also said they would push for authority for greater use of so-called “special police” in Maryland in an effort to try to keep schools safer.
Kipke said that Republican delegates represent about 2 million Marylanders, and their constituents expect them to press for change, just as Democrats’ constituents do.
He called the GOP proposals “common sense” and “nonpartisan” ideas.
The four priorities of the House GOP leadership are:
The “Murder and Repeat Violent Offender Registry Act of 2019,” which would establish a searchable, public registry of violent offenders, modeled after Maryland’s Sex Offender Registry. It would require people convicted of murder to register for a period of 10 years following the completion of their sentence. In addition, defendants convicted of multiple violent crimes would be required to register for a 10-year period. “These are folks who’ve done really bad things to others,” Kipke said.
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Lol, so everyone with a gun in their crime, and at most sex offenses violent? Will they have to register twice?
So a person who murders, or a person who commits multiple violent crimes must be on a registry for 10 years, but a person who looks at images on their computer in tier home is on the SO registry for life. Ok, just wanted to make sure I understood that.
Posted the following on the Washington Post article comment section:
In terms of preventing new sex crime, curbing recidivism and improving community safety, the sex offender registry is, always has been, and always will be a complete failure. All the money on creating and modifying it over the years was wasted because of the false premise that those convicted of sex offenses inevitably repeat their offenses. That was never the case – sex offender registrants are the LEAST likely recidivists, second only to murderers. The sex offender registry has never prevented one single sex crime or played a role in the investigation/prosecution of another. There’s nothing on it that is not available in scores of other databases routinely consulted through normal investigation.
Why, then, does it make sense to make another registry based on it?
I have been attempting to convince others over the years that perhaps the best thing to do is to promote registries. Because that just brings us closer to total abolishment of the registry once it’s challenged.
Here is the contact information below. Let your voice be heard about how their ‘Common Sense’ approach is PURE NONESENSE. Violent threats to society get off in 10 years while people caught in make believe sting operations, or looking at inappropriate images have to stay on the registry for up to life. The Insanity of these Lawmakers:
Contact Del. Nic Kipke
House of Delegates
6 Bladen Street, Office 212
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: kipke@kipke.com
And so big nanny gov expands the hold on the under unrepresented and mostly defenseless populous. Must have residency and presence restrictions and whatever otger restrictions applied. Soon if nothing changes everyone will be on some registry, might as well put the brand of the beast on each and everyone of us as well. Bar code under or on the skin some where..
They keep it up registries will be costing tax payers a huge chunk of change and will have to be considered as part of the nations entire GDP by the time they are finished. Shit, according to CASOMB just the SOR is costing between 10-40 billion, apparently they do not even know the entire cost by my research, but I am sure it well exceeds that sum with all the tentacles of the monster.
A registry for every offense! In fact, make it an all encompassing registry with sub sections for different offenses. It would be so confusing that no one would bother looking. In fact, it would be maintained by government employees, which garuantees that people would be wrongly listed in different sections. The whole thing could turn into a complete disaster!
Secret courts for FISA warrant already proven disruptive.
And easy to lie to.
Only ten years on the registry? AND, if a “registrant” leaves Maryland, he doesn’t have to register anymore?
I’m not making light of this, as I know the politicos are virtual signaling with this proposal with no real intention of creating a registry that will actually work. In addition, the gang and other violent criminal registries were used as badges of HONOR, just like time in prison, for some groups, which make the registries not only ineffective, but markedly dangerous. But when it comes down to it, if virtually every RSO in Maryland can get on THIS registry, they would do it in a heartbeat.
I recently saw in the news that there is a drug offenders registry here, which actually makes more sense than an SOR as most of the crimes are committed by the drug users here(this includes repeat offenses) but the only alternative we have besides this currently in place is 30 years in prison with whipping, or death by hanging. So, not sure which is worse, but the drug offense registry is police only and not public.
Hear Hear AJ, we need more people willing to put up or shut up and fight. Or at minimum help those that are willing to fight, and sorry but not just donate blindly either. Like I stated before, that Taylor case is a shining example of everyone jumping on the band wagon, and the judicial notice, which really made the difference. If that would have been one pro se guy on parole without any of the judicial notice or extensive knowledge that case would never have been decided as it was. NEVER…… The only reason I think my case has a chance is because of the extensive research that mostly AJ, Chris F, and myself have put in, and the judicial notice I just recently filed. I am going to push the analogies of a DUI and other registries and all associated restrictions that could be applied and see what the court has to say about that.
I was reading one of the 9th’s cases, nit sure which one at this point, and the court was straight complaining that the plaintiff did not give the court any analogies or any descriptions of violated rights or anything the court could even began to analyze. The court seemed frustrated and strained by the fact. I really hope SCOTUS expands and reiterates the gun rights in the upcoming case because I am going after that next. Cannot just say, “hey your a felon, you have no second amendment rights” BS if I do not, narrowly tailor that shit to me or it is unconstitutional no matter what anyone else states, even any old SCOTUS cases. You cannot just take millions upon millions (over 20 million to be approx.) of people’s fundamental rights away like that just because the legislature determines it is for public safety. I bet there are not even any reliable studies or empirical evidence showing it increases public safety either. Could be wrong but I doubt it. Legislature and courts are probably doing the same thing as they are with the registry, just assuming and pontificating hyperbole and skewed facts or studies. A matter of fact this is just like the under reporting, it is hearsay and can never be proven definitively. I bet you take people that have committed gun violence and the laws have absolutely no effect on their recidivism rates or future gun violence. Anyone that wants a gun can go and get it no matter who you are. Shit give someone a hundred bucks on the street and you could probably have one. This is a good little article on our felony populates.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-is-the-american-government-ignores-23-million-of-its-citizens/2016/03/31/4da5d682-f428-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html?utm_term=.b949326daf90
This type of legislation should draw more attention to the ridiculousness of any registry or other legislative mandatory penalties or restrictions that are not under control of the sentencing court.
This will have the obvious affect of making it beneficial to the convicted to leave the state. Then it leads to other states raising the penalties in a never ending war of escalation. It is not tailored to the individual or the crime.
If legislature wants to create any penalties, lists, or restrictions to be placed on those convicted of crimes, the duration and nees to apply it should be under complete control of the court at sentencing. This would not only keep it fair, but also follow the convicted regardless of where they travel. They would know when or if restrictions would end. There would be no future additions. The convicted would not have to research every law in every city they pass through to make sure they don’t violate some bizzare law that want there yesterday.
Some day the court needs to have the balls to call out the violation of separation of powers.