What state are you in?

California

I was not on parole or probation just wanted to move to a house it was nice 1 bedroom and for only $350.00 a month since i am on a fixed income it was perfect but soon as i moved into it they (the sheriff dept) told me i had 30 days to find a new place to live due to the fact that there was a school down the street yeah i didn't know that i was mad of course since i had to borrow $1,000.00 to move in.IN my opinion i don't think it is fair to you that you have to move because of this stupid sex offender law .Land of the free my @#%%#$@!@$%

@firecracker - I am sorry to hear that! There was an instance a few years ago in a neighboring township of west allis; an older resident turned out to be an offender. He'd owned his own house since before the offense and it was in the backyard of a school. Of course he wasn't willing to sell his lifetime home, so the west allis chapter of the DOC slapped him with a gps bracelet - if that happened to my fiance I think it would have broken his spirit even more. But anyway, a local news team tried to harass the offender and the west allis pd saying "WHY DIDNT YOU MAKE SURE THIS WOULDNT HAPPEN?!" of course. It's hard to remember that the enemies of progress here isnt just the lawmakers, but the citizens unwilling to learn the whole story before judging.

Well what REALLY made me mad was after i was forced to move i get a letter ( yay! it will be a year the 23rd of this month since i got the letter) saying that i no longer had to register in the state of California they took me off i got my life back i can go to parks movies beaches and can live where ever i want now this is the question i want answered if i was so dangerous why did they take me off this list? and yes sometimes i do feel guilt because i was taken off and i still come here and i read the horror stories that people are having to go through because of these insane laws all for the children.and i have read over and over that a RSO can NOT be trusted they will re offend over and over OK so what about me? so since i am off the list am i out stalking children???? NO! i have been trying to get in touch with some lawmakers sending them e mails asking them these questions and of course i have yet to hear back from any of them.what made me feel good though was after i got that letter i called the sheriffs office the one that made me move and i told him you made me move for nothing after i explained to him the letter he said what is your point the point was it made me feel better knowing you were wrong in making me move. in making the 2 officers that showed up at my house for a compliance check storm my house with out a search warrant WRONG! OK I am worked up now!!! this is not over it will NEVER be over for me until i can help get some of these laws fixed if i can get someone to open their eyes and see how dumb these laws are then i will be happy until that time i will continue to write letters to lawmakers and say you see i was taking off but then again i was never a danger to begin with i had done my time and just wanted to move on with my life. well time to climb down off of my soap box...........peace out and god bless

firecracker; our stories are just the opposite, I was made to look like I was Dangerous 33 years after my crime and this is after my life had changed and you became innocence after they made you Dangerous before the public.
I hope some time later this year you and I can talk about what I am doing to fight back. I believe your story would add to whatt I am doing. Email me at lifegonewrong@live.com

sadly that is now true from what i understand about anyone coming out of this farce we call a justice system. I had one for 2 years when i was on probabtion let me tell you those gps things are a living nightmare. beeps at all hours of the night make you have to go outside in the middle of the night to aquire the signal. also i almost got violated one time cause my probabtion officer didnt zoom in and apperently the deli i was eating at looked like i was in a church playground almost gave me a heart attack. and unlike the registry the gps device is constantly watched. ii think he will probably get a pro tech device which is real shabby. they will tell u you can only be such and such distance awy from your box but i experimented with mine and i could go around 25 feet away from it in a open roon before it would beep at me to get closer to it . and forget simming the second that bracelet goes under water u get a phone call from the monitering center. sorry to be the bearer of bad news on that from i dealt with it by having the box in a backpack and always wearing long pants . i thin you have 30 mins to reaquire signal before your po is notified you might want to double check that one though.

It often depends on the sentence itself. My husband's judge mandated how long he had to wear his bracelet (the length of his house arrest, so 6 months). He wasn't incarcerated first though, I don't know if that would have affected it.

rinkydink,

This is not true. It was written into Ca. law, (Jessica's Law) however, it can not be enforced. Once they have completed probation or parole, the ankle unit comes off. I sent you a private message.

If anyone has questions regarding California, I suggest that you visit California's Reform Sex Offender Laws website. http://californiarsol.org, or send me a message.

firecracker,

We have spoken before. It's been a long time since I have been on this site. Too busy fighting...I flew to Sacramento in January and lobbied our assemblymen. We met with every Democrat. (The Republicans wouldn't meet with us)

. I attended the CCOSO conference in San Diego in May of this year. Janice Bellucci, an attorney, and the President of CARSOL was allowed to be a guest speaker, and she did an amazing job.

I attended the RSOL meeting in Los Angeles on June 16th. We are making progress.

There will be law suits filed in California. I know that everyone has fear. Everyone wants to protect their loved ones, but we all need to STAND UP AND SPEAK OUT about the damage these laws are causing to the family members of registered citizens. This just adds to the stress of the registrants themselves.

Every one of us needs to get involved, do our share. For to do nothing, nothing will ever change.

We just found out today that my husband will have to wear one when he starts pretrial services. I know nothing about them, so am very interested to hear any feedback on it.

I won't lie, it's not pleasant. I can't speak for all the different states or counties, but only tell you how it is for our son. He had to charge for one hour in the a.m. He chose 5:00. Then he had to charge again by 5:00 p.m.for another hour. I would suggest that he chose his hour carefully. Give some thought about the hours he will be out of commission.

They can shower, but not submerge in water, so no swimming. And our son has not worn shorts in three years.
(his choice, out of embarrassment) The braclets are tempermental, and can break or come of.

Our son will have his removed in three weeks, Thank God. Hopefully, your husband won't have his very long.

oneofthem,

I hope that you are kidding. GPS is horrible, I agree. But, your suggestion isn't funny or helpful.

My husband wore one for 6 months. He could not remove it, even when they let him off house arrest to go to my sister's wedding. He said it wasn't uncomfortable, he showered with it, he said he paid attention only that it wasn't visible. He went to work, he came home. That was it. He played a lot of video games and we rented a lot of movies and I would pick up carryout from his favorite restaurants. We hosted dinner parties for family and friends too, no one knew because he always wore pants. It got hard thought to come up with excuses when our friends invited him places. I think I just said he was sick a lot.

It was manageable, but I don't know what I would do if he was on house arrest for a lifetime. The bracelet was really secondary to him being stuck at home. I would NOT remove it with a hacksaw, because then your chances of revocation go from oneofthem's statistic of 90% straight to a HUNDRED percent. We've heard stories, the cops don't take kindly to fooling around with the bracelet.