The whole sex offender registry is beginning to look a bit stupid. My own small town has 1700 “offenders” spread like peanut butter across the county. If you read the offences, he was 17 and she was 16 and it occurred in 1978. Thirty years go by and that’s still there. Probably we have all done something at some point that today would qualify us for this farce.
Once everybody is on the list, nobody is on the list. Time to evaluate who the predators are and cleanse the rest off the list.
This is the problem with ANYTHING government does. It becomes mindless and pointless. Somebody is charged with putting people on lists and that’s what he/she does 40 hours per week. Then, they retire, having added nothing to anybody’s safety.
There was a case a few years ago where this 18 year old black kid had oral sex by a 17 year old girl, and somehow the cops found out. To make a long story short he was sentenced to 5 years in jail and I believe he spent a few in jail until somebody in authority snapped out of their fascist/Muslim way of thinking and got him released. How insane is that? Can you imagine the mental hangups that kid is going to have when it comes to sex now? He’s going to be looking over his shoulder the rest of his life.
If anything, they make people less safe, by burying the serious offenders in a pile of necking kids and pranksters.