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Someone please tell me which state is the best or close to it so I can move from FLORIDA before my son is released in 2020! I read about the Bible belt (had to find a map on Google) Then someone said Arizona is bad. I am originally from Massachusetts and would dread moving back to the cold winter's of hell. Are there any southern states that are ok?
Also, is there something going on with getting rid of the unconstitutional SO lists?
Thank you sincerely.
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But, I will go over some of it again as I may have missed some points during that discussion.
Florida is toxic to sex offenders as are most of the states in the Bible Belt. Missouri and Wisconsin are dreadful states for sex offenders. Arizona---out of the question. Illinois, Iowa, and Indiana are better than the Bible Belt states, but not by much.
I have had dealings over the years with most of the states and I can tell you which ones you want to avoid. For example,
Florida is out of the question, as they pass more and more restrictive bills each legislative session to make things burdensome for sex offenders. Their residency restrictions are ridiculous and cover the entire state.
The Bible Belt states are not a good place b/c politically they are conservative “red” states and the conservative platform is to be “tough on crime.” Louisiana is a hell hole, and Alabama and Mississippi are not much better.
Arizona is not a good state as they are very conservative and the folks there want to be tough on crime. Any state that would continue to elect Joe Arpaio year after year has to be a little nutty anyway. I also think Arizona puts RSO on lifetime probation.
Missouri used to be OK, but they have turned ultraconservative and are passing legislation that is terrible for sex offenders. Wisconsin is a mess. It has lifetime GPS for some offenders and their registry restrictions are very invasive.
So here are some possibilities---
Pennsylvania is not bad. They do not have residency restrictions and b/c of the Muniz decision, they were forced to rewrite the registry.
Ohio is not bad either. I know three mothers with sons as sex offenders who live in Ohio and they seem to be doing well.
If a person was forced to live in a Bible Belt state, South Carolina would be the best state in that area. Actually it is not too bad. I know two guys and a lady with a sex offender BF who live there and they do OK.
North Carolina is toxic, so stay away.
I have had guys tell me that upstate New York is not bad.
Kansas is not too bad either. It has no residency restrictions.
Oregon is probably the best state for sex offenders. Nebraska is not too bad either. If the Tenth Circuit upholds Judge Matsch’s decision on the sex offender registry in Colorado, then that state would be pretty good.
You asked, “Also, is there something going on with getting rid of the unconstitutional SO lists?”
Absolutely. We are beginning to win some court decisions in our favor after years of sheer hopelessness. The Oklahoma RSOs scored a major victory in the Starkey case in 2013, which removed several thousand RSOs from the registry. Ohio did the same with the Williams case, Pennsylvania did the same thing with the Muniz case, and Maryland also won a victory.
The Sixth Circuit Federal Court ruled that Michigan’s sex offender registry was unconstitutional in places and needed to be rewritten. That was the Snyder vs Doe court ruling.
Judge Matsch---the same judge in the Timothy McVeigh case----ruled the Colorado’s registry was so bad that it was a violation of the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constituaiton against cruel and unusual punishment. As I said, earlier that case is on appeal to the Tenth Circuit Federal Court.
So, we ARE winning after a lot of hard work. The registry will continue to change for the better as we win more court cases.
But I have to admit that Trump and Sessions scare the hell out of me. Trump is an authoritarian and Sessions is liable to do anything. If either of them decide to concentrate on sex offender issues, we could be in trouble again.
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