Reject Crime Registries
Florida has kids in its sex offender registry following passage of a new law last year.
“[The Child Protection and Safety Act] requires that teens 14 and older who engage in sexual contact with children younger than 12 be included in state community notification laws such as Florida’s sexual predator list.”
They’re not the only state. Kansas too allows children to be on their sex offender list. In fact, it appears they have one kid who, when he was 14 years old, solicited a sexual act from a child under the age of 16.
I cannot figure out what this accomplishes, and I cannot contain my outrage. And no, they do not get removed from the registry when they turn 18.
Why don’t we have a murderer, burglar, stabber, arson, fraud, theft, or etc. registry? Surely, you’d want to know if your next-door neighbor skinned cats alive. But they’re not in their own registry because it’s cruel and unusual punishment to register somebody on a list, require them to inform their neighbors of their presence, restrict where they can live, and restrict where they can travel for the rest of their lives.
This is a slippery slope. Soon we will have those other registries - and more! Misdemeanors registry, civil judgments registry, traffic violations registry . . . if we don’t reject the concept of a “registry” outright on constitutional grounds, all of these are legally justified.
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The sad fact is that people can hardly define the words cruel and unusual without putting the two together. We have rejected the model of simple restitution and reform and accepted fully the incarceration/punishment model. Might as well brand felons foreheads with the mark of Cain. Enough to make your blood boil.
Well look who it is. Good to see you, PJN.