Hasn't Colorado always used SORNA?

Well you know what? After learning that substantially implementing does not mean standardization across states makes me forever mad!!

I apologize for sounding ignorant, but from Rew's post and Advocate 2's post, I cannot tell whether this means harsher laws for SO or more lenient laws. The article made it sound like laws were to be harsher, but Advocate 2, it sounds like you want to see SORNA implemented across all states. I'm confused! Please explain.

Thanks.:-)

J

CrushedbutHopeful,

Glad to hear from you. Hope you son is doing well.

SORNA will certainly not make it any more lenient. SORNA uses tier levels to classify all offenders. The length and frequency of registration will depend on the tier level assigned. Tier 3 usually means lifetime registration and having to register every 90 days.

The problem, at least in my state, was the tier level was dependent solely on the crime committed and not on any actual assessment of the offender. They had it fixed where almost all the offenders wound up as a tier 3 offender. This may vary from state to state but basically this is what it does.

In Oklahoma, before the Starkey vs. Oklahoma DOC Supreme Court decision, offenders had to register once a year for 10 years. When they applied SORNA, that changed to registering every 90 days with lifetime registration for tier 3 offenders.

rewdiazepam

I need to edit my post. I need to make a clarification.

Before 2007, an offender in Oklahoma only had to register once a year for 10 years.

In 2007, the legislature passed a form of SORNA which increased the registration to a lifetime registration every 90 days----and it was made retroactive.

Starkey vs Oklahoma DOC was finally decided in June of this year and the Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the SORNA restrictions passed in 2007 could not be applied retroactively. What had happened was that offenders convicted before 2007, who were originally supposed to only register for 10 years, were told that they now had to register for life. The Supreme Court said that the DOC could not do that for those convicted before 2007 and these offenders reverted back to the 10 year registration once a year scheme.

rewdiazepam

The reason I said what I did was because SORNA allows some states (like Florida) to be considered SORNA compliant without using the tier system. Even though SORNA is not great, in Florida where everyone gets on the registry for life implementing the tier system would give some people the opportunity to be removed from the registry.

In PA the tiers go by the age of the victim/accuser's age so my hubby went from a level 1 ten yr registration and considered "low-risk" to a tier 3 LIFETIME registration "high-risk" and no chance to petition to be off at any time

yes lifetime forever how can they say thats not a punishment . Denver will be having there whole town on the sex offender list in the next 5 years all there judges and police are all poligimst and love marring girls at 12 and 13 it will backfire when the whole town goes under.

Faeryedark – are you serious? That is insane! I thought I had heard it all! So your risk is assessed by the age of the parties and not the person or crime? I am sorry – that is nuts! In fact, I think the risk should be by the individual person – period. Is PA supposed to be SORNA compliant?

Stormsrcomming – I agree with you. I remember I read an article that predicted that if the numbers continue to grow at the rate they have been that in something like 15 years 1 in every 10 men will be a Registered Citizen. I have often thought about what they are going to do when they realize they have a whole generation of men in the United States whose lives are handicapped by this insanity. Something I have also thought of is suppose there is a crisis that that calls for instituting the draft for the military – they are making large numbers of the eligible men for military service ineligible.