yes private yes

I would agree with a private only registry. I believe that we have to chip away at it little by little until the whole thing collapses. You can't get rid of the entire thing in one fall swoop. If the registry is done away with, it will be because no one sees it useful.

Im torn on the issue. As a wife of a RSO and a mother of 5 children I have personally seen it backfire. It has been taken out on my young children, where parents wont lwt other children become friends with my children or even attend borthday partys I have for my children in public places like roller rinks, bowling alleys, etc.. and my husband wasnt even there.
On the other hand, as a parent, I would like to know if a high risk offender would be living close to me and my children. But then again, if the offender was high risk it would be a public noticfication . I DONT agree with listing the car and plate info on the state website.. I drive both cars and our kids ride in the cars.

I had once thought the public listing would protect my children, but it only gave me a false sense of security. Over 90% of Sex offenses are committed by someone the victim knows and trusts and isn't on the registry. Those that are high risk offenders, if they wanted to reoffend, the registry wouldn't protect anyone either.

I sincerely believe we should be educating outselves and our children about sexual abuse and how to prevent it, as well as offer treatment programs for those who want/need it. We Could actually stop and prevent abuse instead of pretending to do something, while the abuse rates haven't had any impact since the registry has been implemented.

I believe a private registry available only to LE is the way to go because it would tend to remove the issue from politics and prejudice while still functioning to protect children.

As I understand it, the original point of a 'registry' was to give law enforcement a list of dangerous repeat offenders so when something bad happened to a child they would have someplace to start looking.

Right now in NV they are about to 'fully comply" with the National AWA/SORNA version of Registry. Compliance here in NV means that we go from having around 350 names on tier 3 to having 3000 some people moved up to tier 3 because the national AWA/SORNA requires doing away with risk assessment and other mitigating factors (like treatment and age and so on) and ONLY considers "Original conviction" / aka Original sin" in assigning a tier.

The effect is to clutter up the registry making it so over-loaded with "Dangerousness' ' that the tier listing is virtually useless even for legitimate Law enforcement to use to protect/ find anyone. The new fully compliant NV registry will also include (probably on tier 3) every one in NV who had a "conviction with a sexual component" dating back to 1956 but who have (obviously ) never committed a crime since because if they had 're-offended' they would already be on the current registry. In addition to that NV used to have an invisible tier zero so that juvenile court judges could exercise judicial restraint o make decisions in juvenile court and, after a hearing when the youngster was 21 could decide based on individual progress,compliance with probation, school records etc whether or not to transfer the 21 yea old onto the public registry to tier 1-3 or to maintain them in the zero tier and allow them to get on with their lives.

Well, now the "new' Nationally compliant version of the registry in NV (AB 579) abolishes the zero tier and will put these people (some of whom have finished school, gotten a job, gotten married and have children themselves) on the public registry ( probably at tier 3 ) since most impulsive sex curious kids who 'offend' do so with other under age kids ...but the young offender is charged and labeled as a "Child Molester "because of their (also) under age 'child victim" When the NV compliance switches over to only considering the 'original crime' that means that people who were put on the invisible tier zero as youngsters are suddenly placed on tier 3 because the 'original crime' as charged was Child Sexual Abuse/ child molester' so they labeled as teir 3 "dangerous Child Molester" with their picture and address and their whole family put out there to be googled at will...go figure.

Yes, I am in favor of an invisible Registry for everyone and available only to Law Enforcement for use in solving crimes and protecting the innocent. When Congress and legislators and prosecutors can point to the Registry to claim they are tough on child Molesters/ sex offenders and we should increase their budgets and vote for them....then the Registry itself has been (excuse me) Perverted. Just saying JanetM

I am in the minority on this one. I feel if there is a private registry for this class of citizens, there should be a private registry for everyone else who commits a felony. A Bulgar registry, a white collar registry (which they have in Utah) an animal abuser registry, I mean, sure it would help in some future crimes but very minimally. The police and the FBI how so many tools at their disposal with the use of modern day technology that a registry isn't going to make the difference. How much of our liberties do we want to give up to the government for just a little more protection, especially when you consider SO's are most likely to not re-offend?

Also, failure to register wouldn't happen if one didn't need to register. People would probably actually live at the address they claimed they lived at and thus, probably be easier to track down.

I'm sorry, but I guess I just see this a little differently.

A private registry would cut the legs out from under the entire registry system, which is sold to the public on the premise that they are safer knowing where sex offenders live and work.

Personally, I think the registry - public or private - needs to go away.

I agree with you, Joel. That happened in Michigan where Tier 1 went private. Certain people got in an uproar about it and lo and behold, it went public.

Plus, I just don't think it is fair to single out one type of crime and create a registry for him or her when there are equally dangerous crimes out there which do not have registries. I do not think registries are a good thing, period.

I think it causes discrimination, and harassment, so yes, I think that any jail time that they do is punishment enough, and should be kept private.

The registry needs to be abolished. Complete abolishment should be our goal, although that may not be realistic within the political climate today. In my opinion, much of the registry will have to be abolished by court decisions in our favor.

If the registry is not completely abolished, but LE has a sex offender registry for their own uses, a registrant would still be force to register, some registrants having to register every 90 days for life. A LE only registry would still compel a registrant to keep his or her registration current.

The biggest problem with leaving any remnant of a registry lies in the fact that most all the restrictive laws regarding sex offenders spawn from the fact that the offender must register and is on the registry.

For example, I read some of Oklahoma's statutes regarding registration and the statutes regarding some of the laws spawning from registration. Most all the statutes begin with these words-----

"Any person registered as a sex offender, pursuant to the Sex Offenders Registration Act must ......" and then it goes on to spell out the provisions of the law whether it is the residency restrictions, the buffer zones, or the markers on driver's licenses.

These additional laws are predicated on the fact that the offender is on the sex offender registry. Having a LE only registry would not stop all these restrictive laws from being passed.

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i can understand the need or necessity, to be able to keep track of 'high risk', 'repeat' and 'violent' offenders. but the others? no, it would be so much better to do away with the registry.

Michiganfamily: The "Once a SO always a SO" is all the haters look at and the registry clumps everyone in on convenient spot. Fear and Ignorance ignores all the factors re actual harm done, seriousness of the crime, the relative risks of re-offending, and does not even recognize that recovery (or innocence) is possible. . Just have invented their own boogy-man to scare people and now most people in the general people would be too afraid of 'what's lurking out there" to agree to registries with 'invisible tiers or to do away with registries all together. I would think doing away with registries and having people (even those whose crimes have a sexual component) to just going back to serving time, finishing up parole and being free. As frightened as people are now, making the registries private and available only to Law enforcement would just make them more afraid imagining "the boogy-men' they are convinced are 'out there' I think the only way the scrutiny will dissipate is for the mob to find another focus and shift their ignorance and fear over to that population. It's the ignorance that is dangerous and I don't think that the usual "well just educated them with the facts" is going to do much to calm their fears because their fears come from inside them, they just need a scapegoat (sex offenders/ LGBTQ/ Trans/ terrorists/ other religious groups/ and so on) are groups they have traditionally attached their fears to and then justify 'hating' and punishing and (in the old days) burning at the stake...I'm not trying to be negative about this but most people project their fears out ward and right now SO's and families are their target of choice. Even those against immigrants have to attach the word rapist (as in Mexican rapist) to ge people really fired up. JanetM

The registry laws are different from state to state I have been told. I have been in a non offenders group for about 3 years and I am a chaperone of an offender. The registry laws frustrate me for several reasons. The most dangerous offender is the one who hasn't been caught yet (so knowing who and where a SO lives is not really helpful.) The registry doesn't help a SO re-enter the community and makes it difficult to find employment that they can survive on. They already are ashamed for their actions and now need to seek government assistance to survive. I think we as a society need to educate ourselves about SO and maybe the recidivism rate would lower. We have been taught to discard what we don't understand. What my husband did was heinously wrong and I don't accept his actions; however, I support him everyday to continue getting the help he needs. I encourage him to not give up. We know the road is going to be rough and the strain it puts on our marriage is huge (we have to live in separate households, because I have custody of my grandson, not his victim.) He was just released from prison in May of this year and it is frustrating. That is another reason I don't agree with the registry, a 10 year old does not understand and other children can be cruel; they may not understand, but they hear the adults talk and they attack. I know what it's like for me on the inside and my husband tries to explain what's going on inside of him. The victim is all over the place and refuses help, because she's "okay" she says. The road is not easy for families in this situation and families do get divided. Follow the rules and restrictions of probation and hopefully things will get easier. Make sure you clarify everything and take nothing for granted-PO already had to speak with me, because the neighbor called the cops. So clarify everything even when you think it's cut and dry directions.