Due process? What's that?

[kengr]

As those of you who've known me for a while know, I think that the sex offender registries amount to cruel and unusual punishment, especially given that many of the folks various state's laws put on them don't belong on there in the first place.

Well, it just got worse... read this insanity...

http://scienceblogs.com/dispatches/2006/09/get_ready_to_get_pissed.php

Yep. In Ohio you can now be placed on their list simply because someone asked a judge or DA to put you there. No trial. And you can't get off the list for six years.

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[st-andrews-girl.livejournal.com]

In MA, you can be put on the RSO list for skinny-dipping....

[kengr]

Lots of other states too.

If such a list had existed 30 years ago, I'd be on it for something like that.

[kengr]

Oh yeah, because such a list *does* exist now, I'm afraid to see about getting that misdeamonor removed from my record for fear that they'll go "oh, you should be on the list...."