Now that the madness of the Fourth is over and a couple of long lazy weekend days lie ahead, allow the Frog to provide the reading material.
My wish is the subject matter could be light fodder for the mind, a sort of nap with your eyes open. After all, this is a holiday weekend, time to relax. But unfortunately, the page turner provided is anything but light.
Keep your eyes open.
Engage your mind.
And ask questions, especially you attorneys out there.
The Adam Walsh Act Final Guidelines have been released.
The Scarlet Letter of the Twenty-First Century.
Ninety-nine pages of ex post facto fun.
If that's not enough to jump start your interest, feel free to browse these additional links:
Significant Changes to the SORNA Guidelines
Juvenile Offenders Required to Register Under SORNA: A Fact Sheet
Frequently Asked Questions: The Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA) Final Guidelines
As a Floridian that keeps the light for those who refuse to see the light, here is an immediate spotlight clarifier from the feds regarding the residency restrictions our state lawmakers are so in love with.
10.
Does the Adam Walsh Act place restrictions on where sex offenders can live, work, go to school or loiter?
No. Residency restrictions and safety zones are NOT part of the Adam Walsh Act. All such restrictions are the result of jurisdictional or local legislation, not federal law or the Adam Walsh Act. Numerous jurisdictions and local entities do currently restrict sex offenders from living by or being present within certain areas (e.g., within a certain distance of schools, parks or playgrounds). All inquiries regarding residency restrictions or safety zones are a matter to be addressed at the jurisdictional and local level.
Now that Florida can claim citizens living under bridges due to hysteric lawmaking, I'd say our state legislators have some explaining to do.
The Adam Walsh Act.
Nathaniel Hawthorne would be most impressed.
Lawmakers should reform the AWA to require only violent offenders
who are likely to recidivate to register. Therefore, non-violent
offenders unlikely to recidivate will not be branded as sex offenders—a
scarlet letter that may stigmatize them for life. Furthermore, law enforcement
officials will be able to focus on only dangerous offenders necessitating
supervision and registration. Law enforcement officials will
notify community members about violent and dangerous sex offenders
that live nearby and will educate them about how to keep their children.
safe. If reformed, the AWA will successfully serve its purpose as a
method of public safety.
--Lara Geer Farley, Washburn Law Journal
4/17/2008
10 comments:
I forgot to tell you. They're advertising this on CITY BUSES NOW.
SODA some kind of sex offender alert # .... jewspotting at it's finest.
With a toll free # I took a picture I'll try to send it along later.
What's going to happen here is a revolution.
This country is itching for one.
People will only be pushed so far and it's stewing.
Get that number for me.
i'm trying. I'll look through my photos sometimes I miss.... but I def. took a photo ... if not, a video. I'll see it again.
i tried to search it otu by 'soda tampa' or sex offender hotline tampa but no dice. the thing is that they popped up in other places, though.
interesting the timing with the cyber crimes thing, huh?
Do you think the "soda" was "sorna"...?
well ... no but anything is possible. it was just a glimpse and i was driving ... but i take many photos and video at that time so ... I'm pretty sure it was like 1 888 - --- SODA.
I can't think of what the acronym was.
Let me take some time RIGHT now to look in my photos.
If it was a vid that will take longer. sorry.
but it was like if you see a sex offender (um how would ONE purport to KNOW they were seeing one ????) you had this toll free same rat channel # to call.
I find that very fucked up.
All these things. MADD. SODA(?) the water police ... code enforcing neighbors, nazi hoas lemme go look in my sd.(s)
Wow, now your stupid mistakes you made when you were 14 will follow you around for life. What's next, a registry for kids who are bullied and antisocial outcasts who have trouble fitting in to their eer group? Looks like the cool kids won this time.
Everyone will be on a list eventually.
And I would think juveniles--as you described--are likely on a list somewhere at this time.
What tier would I be? I had while I was 18
What tier would I be? I had consensual sex with a 13yr old while I was 18
The way the law is written, no one would ever meet criteria for Tier One...so, I would think Tier Two or Three...but this law has not been funded at this point....which could be a good thing.
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