EXCLUSIVE: Washington state moves to remove community notification, restrictions for sex offenders
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The Post Millennial has learned that Washington’s Sex Offender Policy Board is working with the state’s Sentencing Guideline Commission in an attempt to roll back restrictions and sentence guidelines for sex offenders, claiming “these laws actually undermine public safety, the exact opposite of what lawmakers and the public so confidently assume they accomplish.”
This is on the heels of community blowback from Washington Democrats including Governor Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson, releasing level 3 sex offenders, those deemed the “worst of the worst” and most likely to re-offend from high-security facilities to halfway houses in unsuspecting neighborhoods.
Additionally, at the end of the last legislative session, Democrat Governor Jay Inslee line-item vetoed a provision that would have informed neighbors if such an individual was to be placed in their community.
.....A draft of the recommendations for the Model Penal Code obtained by The Post Millennial from a Sept. 21 meeting reveals that the entities are claiming that “those convicted of a sex offense have some of the lowest recidivism rates compared to individuals convicted of a non-sex offense” adding “This is also true for individuals convicted of sex offenses against children.” The document did not cite the pertinent data.
The entities also argued against “Community notification”, claiming that public access to the registry and community notification rarely leads individuals to take meaningful precautions to protect themselves.”
“These systems create a false sense of security and divert attention from more significant sexual dangers, increasing risk to the public” and the entities argued for “background checks” instead.
Additionally, the entities claimed that removing the restrictions would serve as a cost savings. “Registration laws are expensive to implement. Including registry management, GPS monitoring, website technology, etc.” are “Estimated to cost several millions of dollars per year to run and maintain a registry.”
In a state that has been known for being lax on crime and supporting defunding the police, the entities claimed that the cost “Reduces available police resources for responding to emergencies and investigating crime.”
According to the entities, “Unintended consequences” could be “Homelessness resulting from restricted housing” such as “Overbroad limits on employment and residency due to misunderstanding information from public registries.”
Rather than informing neighbors of a dangerous predator in their midst, the entities advocated for sex offense registries to be “…reserved exclusively for the use of law enforcement” and that “…community notifications should be prohibited.”
.....She added that the entities are advocating to completely eliminate the sex offender registry.
.....37 attorneys general from across the US previously signed a letter opposing similar rollbacks of sex offender regulations.
.....When asked why the push to roll back the restrictions, Morgan said, “Washington State was the first state in America to ever require a sex offender registry and public notice about sex offenders and the rest of the country, including the red states, all imitated Washington.”
“I still think that there’s a lot of bitterness in that community that grew...and the idea of thinking that if they can start to roll it back in Washington...just like the idea started here, (if) they can start to roll it back here, they can start to roll it back everywhere else.”
Washington state is changing its name to: 'The House of the Rising Sun' - or is it 'The House of the Setting Sun'. More likely it will just finally accept 'H3ll' ... Home sweet home.
Type 1 diabetes diagnosed after age 30 for many U.S. adults
https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2023/09/29/Type-1-diabetes-diagnosed/6011695928004/
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Type 1 diabetes has long been viewed as a childhood disease, but a new study suggests it might be time to revise that thinking.
Investigators concluded that nearly 4 in 10 Americans with Type 1 diabetes aren’t diagnosed with the blood sugar condition until they’re at least 30.
“Our research adds to a growing body of studies showing that adult-onset Type 1 diabetes may be as common as childhood-onset Type 1 diabetes,” said study author Michael Fang, an assistant professor in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore.
.....The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention explains that only about 5% to 10% of all diabetes patients have Type 1 diabetes, which is believed to be a result of the body essentially attacking itself, due to an immune system running amok.
That distinguishes it from the much more common Type 2 version of diabetes, which is more often attributed to lifestyle factors. Such factors include being overweight or obese, which can trigger insulin resistance, ultimately leading to dangerously high blood sugar levels.
.....Until recently, the consensus has been that while Type 1 diabetes can develop at any age it typically strikes children, teens and young adults.
However, that presumption may be incorrect, with the study team pointing to recent research that suggests that more than half of all Type 1 diabetes cases (about 62%) develop after the age of 20.
Fifty-seven percent of patients did not find out that they had Type 1 diabetes until they were 20 or older, while 37% of the patients didn’t find out until they were 30 or older. Another 22% were not diagnosed until they were at least 40.
What does this all mean?
“While it is commonly believed that Type 1 diabetes develops in childhood, our findings suggest it is not that simple,” said Fang. “Type 1 diabetes can develop at all ages.”
Still, the CDC notes that Type 1 diabetes symptoms are often initially mild, and they may go unnoticed for months or even years. On top of that, routine screening is not currently recommended.
So, might it be the case that some patients develop the disease while young, yet go undiagnosed well into adulthood?
.....Not according to Fang, who views the findings as more of an indication of “the heterogeneity of the disease,” rather than a sign that Type 1 diabetes patients are falling through the cracks.
The bottom line, he said, is that “sometimes it develops in childhood. But often it develops in later ages.”
The findings were published recently in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Caroline Sloan is an assistant professor of medicine and population health sciences at the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy at Duke University in Durham, N.C.
Sloan, who was not part of the study team, said the findings underscore “our continued tendency as clinicians to associate Type 1 diabetes with childhood and to assume that when a person develops diabetes as an adult, it’s unlikely to be Type 1 diabetes, even in the face of strong evidence that a large proportion of patients with Type 1 diabetes develop the disease in adulthood.”
That’s a big problem, she suggested, because “if a patient’s diabetes type is misdiagnosed [as Type 2 diabetes] it could change a lot about how they’re treated, what doctors they see and their ability to control their blood sugars adequately.”
Sloan’s advice: When adults go in for diabetes screening, it’s important to deploy testing “that can help figure out the type of diabetes a person has.”
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Misdiagnosis due to medical dogma can be dangerous to your health. I know two people who developed Type 1 diabetes in their mid-40s and get misclassified as Type 2 often due to the medical dogma of Type 1 being childhood diabetes.