this is outrageous! I hope they do put innocent people on it and they sue the pants of of them! WTH?????

Once the first step is made the flood gates are opened and there's no stopping the stampede. When lawmakers get away with the first step there becomes a flood of piggy-back laws regardless of the mentality or logic of the reason.

Politics has no logic except re-election.

Robby's Rule is flawed and is ex post facto legislation. No pictures. Just names and conviction dates. It is going to cause a huge mess with job applicants, housing, etc, as paranoid idiots are going to match names against the list and turn this into a witch hunt.

yeah it's easy enough to see that there is going to be a mass of problems.

What will they think of next!!! I swear, these guys must sit up nights drinking hard liquor coming up with new laws to hurt the public. Only someone really intoxicated with liquor, drugs or power could think that this promotes public safety. Shame, shame, shame.

You know, Echo. I was thinking that perhaps this will create such a mess that it will call attention to the ineffectiveness of the whole thing, as well as the harm it does to families and children. We should watch this one.

http://www.hngn.com/articles/69758/20150216/child-molestation-victim-campaigns-sex-offender-registry-improvements-hngn-true.htm

Here's another article that describes "Robby" more. Part of the problem here is that child victims like this are really very damaged people. One of the main things that people fail to develop in situations like this is the ability to self-reference. That means that they can't tell who they are in relation to other people.

Meaning...little Robby is still running the show. This article does not describe the behaviors of a grown man. They are the behaviors of a little boy in a grown man's body. This is the result of his trauma.

The State of Virginia would be better off spending their money on treatment for those who are damaged like this and REAL prevention programs that help those who know they may offend as well as educating people about the truth of this issue. Instead, Virginia has chosen to dump more money into the sex offender wasteland called the "Registry".

I know you will all make comments about legislators using this to get elected. That's definitely how it works. But I think it is more complex. People react to situations like this with compassion, but they don't realize that it is misplaced. Rob is no longer Robby, yet, people respond to him as if he were and they think they are doing something "good."

Unfortunately, even if someone were wise enough to see through to the actual problems, it is too much a political football for any legislator to stand up to it.

This new law is a sad day for everyone.

we can only hope that this causes such a huge freaking mess that the registry as a whole gets viewed with new, clearer eyes!!!!

I agree peek that it's more than just trying to get elected. They think they are actually doing a good service and righting a wrong. The problem is what if in the process of trying to right the wrong you end up causing more harm?

That is my problem with the victims movement. I don't have a problem with them wanting justice, I understand that. What I have a problem with is they haven't done any studies to ahow the effectiveness of their recommendations. If they had, they would see that the registry does not reduce sex offenses. They would see child buffer zones help make some RSO's homeless and hard to employ. They would see the registry can actually cause more crime to occur and not less.

not to even mention the damage and harm it does to the children and families of those so listed.... it makes them victims.