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The registry is nowhere near as bad as it used to be back in the early 2000s. Anyone who’s been on the registry for 20 years or more know exactly what I’m talking about. It was Hell the cops would pick a zip code and open investigation/compliance checks on every registrants house and transients with no stable addresses were under even more scrutiny, you literally had to tell them where you slept every night and they would give you a lil login booklet. They also would mail your proof of registration and you had to carry it around with you at all times.
When I was in my early teens they would show up at my mom’s home in riot SWAT gear twice a year even when I was off probation.
Registrants couldn’t live by any schools or school bus stops, in orange county you couldn’t even be at the beach or walk through a park not to mention CPS taking peoples kids because they were dating a person forced to register, and everyone was on the registry for life.
I remember when the internet really started taking off andvpeople started getting desktop computers in there homes everyone started looking up people forced to register in their neighborhoods, it was the biggest trend in the early 2000’s.
It started calming down around like 2015 and we started hearing talks of a possible tiered registry.
Now days after your sentencing you get placed in a tier with hope of getting off in 10 or 20 years and some people in tier 3 can get their tier level, reduced down to tier 1 or 2.
imagine be told you have to register for life,
that literally destroys a person soul especially if your a teenager.
Back in the early 2000’s there was no ACSOL, so when Janice popped on the scene we thought she was a GOD. I can’t express how people forced to register felt in those days when they stumbled across Janice, she was the only piece of hope we had back then she was the only person at the time who wasn’t afraid to publicly speak out against the registry.
Not to take away from anybody’s pain and suffering they’re going through today, but just be happy it’s not the early 2000’s
My long-held belief to eliminate any elected, appointed or hired government employee violating the federal constitution, state constitution or state law when that violation harms someone is that the exact same harm should be put on that government employee, that is that the government employee should experience the exact same punishment, harm, etc….
In my opinion, this practice would be the quickest way to stop government abuses towards citizens. Of course no politician would vote to adopt this type of law because that would eliminate their power to abuse citizens.
So if Judge Bernal decides to eliminate SORNA in ca or allows it in California, then either they appeal or the Pacific Legal Foundation , will file an appeal correct? Either way nothing‘s gonna happen anytime soon in regards to it correct? And if the judge decides for it in California, does the temporary injunction still stay in place? Until he renders the final decision from the appeals? Someone please respond!! Thank You
You could have petitioned for “Sealing of Records” in Virginia for class 5&6 felonies as of July 1st 2026
I just wanted to give a little background on myself and some hope for registrants in Virginia.
First off in Virginia I was convicted of a class 6 for possession of CP in 2013. This is a 15 year registration requirement but I moved out of state to a state that requires 10 years. I was removed from the Virginia system when I moved.
The governor of Virginia automatically restored my “Rights” in 2017, I was shocked but pleased. All the same if you were not restored under similar a situation, it is easy to petition and can be done without a lawyer providing you meet the requirements.
As of now I am not on a registration anywhere.
This brings us to the topic of sealing your records. The law as I read it, shows only that you can petition after 10 years for class 5&6 felonies. There is an exception for some crimes that were tacked on after the 2021 law was passed. Mine is one of those exceptions. This makes me wonder if a legal challenge can be made on preemption claims for those prior them changing it.
If not a legal challenge, this might be fertile ground to petition for changes to the law for those that have completed treatment, not picked up a new charge, or other qualifying criteria.
What are your thoughts on how to make people with a prior sex offense better integrated back into society like others who have petitioned and been granted sealed records?
Why and how did California decide to pass a NEW law in 2021 that requires people with a sex offense conviction to be placed on the Megan’s Law registry? How do a couple of lawmakers who have never met me to evaluate me psychologically and even consider my background and risk level? They just put us on there to get more money from the feds/state to say they’re monitoring us. which we all know that’s 100% false.
Just curious, but was any progress made at Lobby Day in finding a way to get the CASOMB recommendations to change the tiered registry to be implemented?
Florida is attempting to ease child labor laws in order to make up for the worker shortage due to the deportation fiasco. Don’t know about you, but that sure sounds like minor abuse to me!
Wondering: If your conviction in a state other than Florida was prior to 1993, and you now move to Florida, are you not required to register? I see a lot mention of 1993 in the statutes as an apparent cut off date. Somehow I don’t think this is the case, but would like to find out.
Between qualified immunity protection for law enforcement, and Trump rolling back efforts to track law enforcement abuses and freezing the DOJ’s police misconduct investigations, I think law enforcement has a green light to do whatever they want to us registrants.
A little light Friday night reading if you’d like given we have discussed the SOL relation of this topic to those who allegedly partake in it and the registry implications for those allegedly involved: Does Legalizing Sex Work Increase Human Trafficking? (Reason.com 25 Apr 2025) A go-to study for advocates of restricting sex work used a flawed economic model and abysmal data.
Gee, that data conclusion sounds familiar for those impacted by the registry. I think the reader will like the conclusions here and those who work against this effort make it worse for everyone, much like residency restrictions, for example.
Today in the Monsalvo Velázquez v. Bondi case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that immigration deadlines for voluntary departure must be extended when they fall on weekends or legal holidays. This means that if a voluntary departure period ends on a Saturday or Sunday, the deadline is extended to the following Monday.
Would this ruling change the date one must register when visiting a state if the last day falls on a Saturday or Sunday?
As I previously stated, Trump was going to start deporting citizens with no process. He started by deporting a two year old citizen who had zero due process. I wonder what violent crime or sexual crime this person committed. I still believe he will ignore the courts and start deporting us registered people to a foreign concentration camp with no due process and no way out other than death.
If you have a federal Tier 1 CP possession, and you have been on the registry for more than 15 years,which is the federal registration time for federal tier 1 convictions,are you still required to have the marked passport and give 21 days notice for international travel,some states ie Mass and California allow you to be removed after the federal time period, while others have longer registration periods up to life for the same federal charge, ie NY where many people have been given NY tier 2 which is life under state SORA.
Why isn’t child trauma introduced more as a mitigating factor in sex offense cases.
I have done extensive reading on the subject. I myself was subjected to what is described as covert sexual abuse. While I grew up in an era where these things were not discussed, my therapist recognized it immediately when I described my upbringing and how I responded to traumatic interpersonal events in my life.
The biggest flag that they recognize is that of participation in risky behavior, such as drugs, reckless acts like prostitution, binge eating and in fact sex offenses such as illegal porn and voyeurism.
These types of issues are regularly raised in court as mitigating factors in all kinds of cases, yet I don’t see it being introduced in sex offense cases. Why not?
Your adulthood is shaped by childhood experiences, and negative experiences can obviously have a profound impact on personal judgements, actions and reactions. I am personally glad that my therapist helped me identify, work through and resolve this as an issue in my life. I only wish I would have had this guidance earlier in my life.
The forum here talks a lot about minors and their actions before the age of 18 with sexually related actions/consequences to which they may or may not be aware of depending on who you talk with. Well, FLA is now considering how smart they are to begin with sexually by consequences that will require action and how to best deal with them:
Will Florida Teens With Sexually Transmitted Diseases Have To Tell Their Parents Before They Can Get Treatment? (Reason.com 23 Apr 2025) These bills would require exactly that—and a lot more.
But if they aren’t smart enough to know better and cannot legally consent to sex before 18, how are they going to deal with this? Will they find the opposing party and charge with them with child endangerment? The Pandora’s box they are looking to open and be used by the DA’s office if they so thought about it.
US cancels hundreds of grants for police, crime victims, Justice Dept documents show | Reuters
🤔 I wonder if they have canceled any Adam Walsh, sauna, doj smart type grants to local law enforcement?🤨
Certainly seems to me like an excellent place to cut some WASTE. 😡
California registrant (federal possession conviction) here. Wife and I are expecting a baby later this year, and need to start looking into daycare options. Looking at the presence restriction laws in California, I know of the following one regarding registrants entering schools:
PEN § 626.81 – (a) A person who is required to register… Section 290, who comes into any school building or upon any school ground without lawful business thereon and written permission indicating the date or dates and times for which permission has been granted from the chief administrative official of that school, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
I did not find anything in this code section related to daycares. Is anyone aware of any requirements for notification to the daycare (assuming it is not part of a school)?
I know there is another code that mentions daycare, but that section seems to be related to senior care/assisted living and applies to registrants with convictions involving seniors.
Any input is appreciated. Obviously once they get to school age we’ll need to deal with notifying the school unless god willing the legislature takes up the CALSOMB recommendations to revise the tiering for CP and I can get off the registry before then.
Has anyone here had their gun rights restored. This only applies to those that only served county time (if any) and have had either a 17b granted or have an original misdemeanor charge. Also did you have to file separately or did you receive the restoration automatically. I legally signed over a firearm to someone to be held and now want to recover it. My attorney has been slow in answering this question. Originally I was under the impression that I couldn’t possess while I was a PFR. But since that is about to end, I want to know if any procedure needs to be followed