Bill would end registry listing of where sex offenders work

Shelly, We did not know this person, and I do know the difference between a pedofile and a child molester. I have done my research. I also became this person's worst nightmare, (license plates),did my research and found out he was a realtor, so I set up appointments with him to view rental properties, JUST SO I could see his pathetic mug. I reported him to the schools in the area, including the one his own child went to. I confronted him at his job, and I also went to the hospital to witness the birth of his 2nd son. Yeah, call me an obsessed mother, but I DO NOT take this crap lightly. You mess with my kids, you mess with me. IF ONLY ALL PARENTS COULD BE SO INVOLVED.

Yes, by all means lets ensure that someone cannot rebuild themselves and attempt to change. Currently ex-sex offenders are the 2nd least likely group to commit another offense, even though we as a nation have stacked the deck completely against them. I wonder it the 1st least likely would react the same way? How many Alcoholics that have killed while driving would change their lives as over 95% of the ex-sex offenders have, if they too were placed on public display for the world to ridicule, threaten, and kill? I doubt either of these two groups would change as much as the former offenders have. "Sex Offenders for life"? Hardly. "Sex Offenders for life in YOUR tiny mind", yeah, I agree with that one.

I am content in the vision of Jacazz & his LIEberal friends burning in hell for the rest of eternity

Listing a sex offender's employer on the public registry doesn't really serve to protect anyone. Common sense should tell you that. In fact, doesn't it stand to reason that a sex offender or any felon for that matter will be much less of a threat or no threat at all if he or she has a steady income, enabling he or she to provide for themself and family. Before you allow the media to dictate your thinking on this matter, do your own research, find out the facts (and the truth) about those listed on the Sex Offender registry.

It is my opinion that the new Pope is sending a strong and profound message about molestation by choosing the name Francis.

We need to repel this 2007 law. Employer information does not need to be on the registry. This information is available to law enforcement agencies and does not need to be available to the general public. This information on the registry does not make you or your children any safer. Do you want sex offenders regardless of the severity of the crime, who has paid his debt to society, served probation, been clean for more than 20 years unable to feed his family?? Do you really want them unemployed wandering around the streets or do you want them working, keeping busy, earning a pay check and a productive member of society. Some employers have refused to hire offenders as they do not want their company name on the registry. Unemployable offenders wandering around the streets unable to find work does this make you feel safer?

Just Me, You mention about a different story for teens. Unfortunately, at this time all offenders are lumped into one category on the registry and the police do not have time to watch out for anyone as there are too many. What is sad is that the teenager who had sex with his girlfriend is treated the same as the dangerous sex offender and the public is out there to hang this teenager out to dry with fear propaganda. This bill would not make anyone safer, police would still know where the offender works. It only makes the information not available to the public. Is it fair to this teenager that he can not get a job because the hiring company does not want their name listed on the registry. This is a real situation.

Most sex offenders are not "real offenders". They are normal people caught up in a fear mongering world that is insanely quick to condemn with not common sense. People who have bad judgment on who hang around with or how to treat teen girls or women (false retributive allegations or consensual sex with underage girls pretending to be older), where to urinate, et cetera are not dangerous pedophiles who will sexually harm anyone. Until the mass convictions of harmless people stops, there is need to protect harmless people and their families from being harmed more!!

Just Me, your IN OUR OWN FRONT YARD in caps expresses what you intend it to express--shock that a person you call a "pedofile" would target your child in his own yard. First, chances are he wasn't actually a pedophile; that would depend on factors best diagnosed by a professional, but more importantly, you shouldn't be shocked. By now almost all parents know that the far greater risk to their children for sexual harm comes from those they know well, not from strangers, not from previous offenders, but from family members and neighbors and peers and authority figures. Furthermore, a goodly portion of that abuse occurs in the victims' homes. It is almost sure that was also the source of your molestation, someone known by you and your family. And I am very sorry for it. I understand it. My sister was a childhood victim as was my daughter. But for those who have offended, have served or are serving their court-ordered punishment, want to live decent lives, hold jobs, and take care of their own children, making it next to impossible for them to do that may make us feel better but it does not make society safer; it does the opposite. We need laws and policies that promote public safety; the public registry and public disclosure do not do that; making it even harder for them to find employment does not do that. Blessings to you and your family.

This registry is the modern day version of the scarlet letter, only a politically correct version. It is based on emotion instead of sound jurisprudence. At first it was about keeping track of the worst sorts of serial criminals at high risk of committing more crimes once released from prison but due to reasons ranging from political grandstanding to misandry the registry was expanded so that now there are even men on the list because they had sex with their 17 year old girlfriend when they were 18. And they will be on the list for life! Any time emotions become involved with the law, Reason goes out the door.