that is the general public for you... I see those kinds of reactions from both kinds of sites... FOX has a reputation but so does the rest of them...

It gave me a good laugh from the first page of comments... how stupid are people? I mean really?!?

I can't laugh at any of it. My son is an RSO and I hate that he has to deal with this.

You know in the state of Mass. they took SO names off the (public) registry (There they make everyone tire 3 ) Anyway after they were off for a couple of years some court decision changed so Law Enforcement started putting all the 3rd tier names all back on (which was everyone) So people who were off a couple of years and never committed so much as a traffic ticket while "off" were not considered "not a danger" but just re-upped/ re-added and so it goes...Another true tales from the Cript? aka Registry? I don't have a link but true story...LOL?

Laura Ahearn of the Long Island advocacy group Parents of Megan’s Law told the station about 60 to 70 Level 1 sex offenders in Nassau and Suffolk alone will come off the registry this year.

“We have a stack of Level 1 offenders that have committed serious offenses against young children

If these people had serious offenses, how would they be level 1, the least serious offenders? They have already followed these insane laws for 20 years without issue. Politicians should be using this as a sign that their system works.

If there is NO hope, then there is less reason to comply.

This is where a good reporter might explain exactly what offenses are considered Level 1, rather than relying on the word of an advocate.

Here's another report. Not good, but a little better.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/02/registered-sex-offender-rules-long-island/

Here we find that Level one offenders were originally supposed to register for TEN years, then the law was changed so they had to register for 20 years, and now that 20 years has passed, they want to extent that to 30 years. In another decade it will be 40 years, then 50, and so forth and so on. Just keep moving the goalposts.

Now all of a sudden those on the lower tiers of the registry are rapists and serial child molesters------some having victimized children as young as two years old. Wow. I wonder who is on the higher tiers.

It's amazing the extent in which the government through the media uses fear to control the populace. This fear tactic is nothing new nor is it used exclusively against sex offenders.

This reminds me of the tactic the DOC in Oklahoma has used for the past two decades to get adequate funding. Whenever there is a budget crisis in Oklahoma and the prison system is told they must take a drastic budget cut, the DOC always comes out with the same old tired line-----"Now that we don't have enough money to house these people, we will be forced to release all the rapists, murderers, child molesters, and kidnappers on the general public.

The Oklahoma DOC always gets their funding.

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The only way they could be level 1 with those charges are one of two ways.

1. They were UNDER 17 years old when they committed those crimes (that's NY State's way of giving them a "second chance"....only 20 years on the registry.

2. They have been a level 2 for 10 years and applied and been approved to be lower risk than originally believed due to changes in lifestyle (reformed alcoholic or drug user) or stability in your life (from homeless or overall party person to stable, married, job holding individual).

For being a society that believes incarceration is the "solution" to make people pay their debt there isn't any opportunity to do that with any of these charges.....not even when you were a kid that committed it or when you've proven that you have turned your whole entire life around.