oh yes they are enough to make ones head spin and life a living hell. You will need to ask his PO - they are the only ones that can tell you for sure and my advice would be to get it in some type of writing. Research the laws before you ask so that you can nicely show you are educated before they try to blow smoke you know where ...

I love your account picture by the way ....

The vacation topic has come up several times before and there are different schools of thought.

First though, a registrant will not be allowed in to Canada, they will turn him away at the gate, guaranteed. Was there in 2014 and there is a sign posted about who is NOT allowed in the country. So going to Niagara falls will be fine, just stay in New York.

If your fiance is on probation/paper/supervision travelling is going to be more a PITA than anything else. Because they will require him to get a travel permit, depending on their rules they may want him to report to LE when he gets to his destination and all sorts of crap. Also going to places where the agent believes children gather will be off limits, but any excursion like zoos and aquariums will need approval before he can go anywhere like that.

Do you know how long he will be reporting to an agent on supervision, his discharge date is usually what it is called.

I'm also going to bring up SORNA. The federal statutes state that if you engage in inter-state commerce, then you will be subjected to federal guidelines. Travel with caution - although I *think* vacation may have different rules. I'm going to err on the side of caution though and not travel across state lines.

My fiance and I just went on a trip out of state.

First, we had to get the trip approved by his PO (he was in good standing, we had to have the address of where we would be staying and with whom, a general outline of where we would be visiting, phone numbers we could be reached at and we were driving so we gave the route we were taking.) We notified his PO about the trip 3 months prior to the trip (he switched PO's in the middle. We notified his original PO 6 months prior. His new on came in about 3 months prior)

Second, we had to determine if he had to notify the state/county we would be staying in. The state we were in required registration if we stayed 7 days. We were staying 6 so it was not necessary for him to notify anyone. I think this differs between states, so you will have to find this out.

Third, he had to get a travel permit from his PO. This was a paper outlining the trip and that he had permission from the supervision department and county to travel. It had the date we were leaving and the date to which WE HAD TO RETURN. It was signed and dated by both him and his PO. His PO kept a copy and we had a copy to keep with us.

Fourth, we had to notify our county when we left and when we returned home. (a phone call was all that was necessary)

The biggest advice I have is to talk to his PO about it. Outline the trip in detail and present it to the PO. If he is in good standing, and you are in good favor of the PO things are easier. Any trip we make whether it be to a different city that we may need permission for, or a mall, different shopping centers near parks, state parks, I usually check maps to look at the area to see what is around it so we can tell the PO what some possible areas are we are to avoid.

I've been to Niagra Falls before, and it is a state park. Our state has nothing saying RSO's aren't allowed in state parks (we just have to notify his PO), but I am unsure about NY. I do believe National parks are off limits to RSO's (some one correct me if I am wrong.)

For us zoos are pretty much off limits. Aquariums fall more into the museum category and it is really a call by call thing for his PO. This is another thing you would have to discuss with the PO as it seems all rules are different. A friend of ours has the same PO as my fiance. He is allowed permission to go to amusement parks, whereas my fiance is not allowed to go.

Thinking about all the hassles and hoops one has to jump through to travel and basically to live even the semblance of a normal life while on probation and on the registry, I think about a recent incident where one of my cousins was driving home from a trip when her car broke down in a small town in another state. She was stranded in that town for four days while her car was repaired.

That situation is a headache for people normally. What are the ramifications for someone on probation or on the registry should something like that happen?

Actually someone I know had something like that happen while he was on supervision. He kept in touch with his PO and had he not been on GPS where an automatic warrant was issued because his bracelet wasn't where it was supposed to be. He would have been fine with an issue such as that. When he got home after a few hours the police came an arrested him on a GPS violation and he sat until the PO could sort it out and get him out. Yes inconvenient...

Bob is on the Registry and on life parole (no ankle bracelets/ GPS involved) . He just puts in for a travel permit well ahead of time from his PO for the length of time we plan to be away (usually about 2 weeks)listing the states will travel through and stay in. NV expects that anyplace we stop (more than just overnight in a motel) we have to get some LE agency to sign the papers once so they will know we are there. (Oregon LE doesn't want to sign unless you are there over 30 days so. we just get them to write on the paper that they don't want to sign instead and they sign that! LOL) In Washington where we were for a week, we had to drive around most of one day just to find LE/ agency willing to sign off but the county sheriff finally agreed. Idaho was about the same. We use motels etc on the road but usually stay overnight with family that doesn't have kids when we get there but we still visit/ see everybody. It's kind of a hassle but better than staying home all the time. The hardest part is just getting Bob to ask for the @#$% travel permit in the first place. He hates the ask!

Honestly I'd stay in state sense his still on supervision and two it would save you money in the long run for a much better vaction down the road you'll be surprised what your state has to offer

We live in a big state that has a lot to offer thankfully. The only reason we travelled was because my grandmother is very ill and probably won't make it another year. I promised her all of last year I'd make it up for Christmas because I hadn't seen her in two years.

My mom paid for our drive up and back.

These were the reasons we travelled, otherwise we would not have gone.

He does need a travel permit if he leaves the county for more than 24 hours, so even if we want a weekend away out of county, he needs a permit. Granted that is a lot easier.

Wow, I'm shocked on what you have to go through to take a vacation. Can I assume if it's this much of a hassle to leave the state that RSO's cannot work as long distance truck drivers? Just wondering if that's the case?

I know two RSO's that work as long distance truck drivers. The first it was his job prior to him being arrested and they gave him permission to keep it.

The second was having an extremely rough time finding work and a CDL job was the only one he could get that paid him enough to support him and his family. He got his CDL and did short runs and worked his way up to long distance.

It is possible, I think it just has a lot to do with your PO if you are on supervision.

I would wait however he is 53, and technically on for life. However he can petition the superior court in 5 years to try and be set free. Which is why he really wants to take a vaca with me before he gets too much older

does anybody have proof about the federal park thing not allowing SOs? I've never heard that one before