“The Accidental Sex Offender” (Marie Claire) On July 28, 2011, in In The News, by tvadmin …. It was a classic teenage love story. He was a football star, and she was a cheerleader. They met, they fell in love, they started having sex. And then the cops got involved. Fifteen years later, they’re still paying the price. Frank Rodriguez cannot coach his children’s soccer teams. He can’t get a job at a major corporation. He can’t leave the state without registering with local law enforcement. A married father of…
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LIFETIME REPORTING HARMS SOCIETY, INDIVIDUALS
Editor’s Note: The editorial below from the New York Times is not specific to registrants, but addresses an issue of great importance to registrants. That issue is employment and the need to reveal a past offense. California needs to join Massachusetts in limiting the use of information regarding past convictions. January 9, 2012 Paying a Price, Long After the Crime By ALFRED BLUMSTEIN and KIMINORI NAKAMURA IN 2010, the Chicago Public Schools declined to hireDarrell Langdon for a job as a boiler-room engineer, because he had been convicted of possessing…
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