TN, although in the bible belt, has not been that bad for us. I think that after it has been 10 years after release from prison, if you do not get any other sex charges, you can petition to be removed from the registry. I know of 2 that have successfully done so. Also, that is if it is not listed as violent.

TN signed into law SORNA in 2011. I have not seen them place people on a tier system yet, however, they no longer allow registration by mail..........I was told everyone has to come in face to face as it's now all done electronically. I used to do my registration by mail.

If the charge is in MN and they relocate wouldn't the registry remain the same for the 10 yrs?

Actually I think you should stay in Kansas just move to a more rural area. I live in Kansas outside of Kansas City and I feel pretty fortunate compared to what I here about registrants have to go thru in most other states. There are no residency restrictions here and they have been rejected several times. And there are no other such restrictions either. Depending on your husbands charges, date of conviction and the outcome of a recent case pending in the Kansas Supreme Court he may be able to be removed from the registry here. See these links for the case I'm talking about.

http://www.josephhollander.com/articles/Kansas-Sex-Offender-Registration-Laws/2

http://www.policeone.com/legal/articles/6326524-Judge-overturns-sex-offenders-registration-extension/

gemmy1 - I am certainly not qualified to answer those legal questions at all. I have heard that once on the FL list always on the FL list. I do know that when someone my son knows came from Texass his probation conditions wee that of Texass but I do not know about the registry. I know that when someone moves to another state from FL they are still on the Florida list and it tells the state they moved to - once I looked up the name of the person on the state list they moved to and they were not there. They also keep people that go back to another country on the list in FL and worse of all the keep people on there that are long deceased! You can even search the FL list by the criteria of deceased. It really is unbelievable! Once a news group interviewed someone that oversees the FL registry and asked them why they leave dead people on there and they said because there is no proof they are dead - I think it is because they pad the numbers. Personally I think if you are in a state where you have an end in sight that you will be off the list - then that is where you should stay until you are off the list. I know someone asked whether you were on the registry then off and then went to another state do you have to inform anyone that you are there - heck no! You are no longer a RSO and you do not have to tell any one anything!

Wouldn't a death certificate be proof of someone deceased? I don't get Fl...

yeah you would think - ever since the news story about it they changed the FAQ to say that they stay ont here for a year after the reported death so the community and family can be notified ... that is crap - do they really think we are that stupid?? Anyway - I know it is not true because there are a couple of deceased people on there that I know have been there since my son was added to their rolls and that has been 3 years

If Kansas hadn't passed the AWA here in 2011 it wouldn't have been so bad. I hope that court challenge against the AWA here is successful. If it is I think Kansas would be the place to stay and really take a stand against all this registry non-sense. A Bleeding Kansas part deux so to speak. I think the legislature has been fairly smart about things like residency and Halloween restrictions etc.. (So far). But things tend to go down hill once a state adopts the AWA. They removed employment info from the registry and passed a law preventing cities and counties from enacting residency restrictions. And I think if we really organized here and put the pressure on that the Kansas legislature would be pretty amenable to further reform. Like I said in my previous post maybe just relocate to a smaller city in Kansas and try that for awhile. If you decide to relocate inside of Kansas don't move to Johnson county... Olathe, Overland Park etc. That whole area is full of hysterical, rich, nosy, snobs. And stay out of Sedgewick and Butler counties. On the east side of Kansas Miami, Linn, and Bourbon counties and most of the smaller counties are not to bad.

Advocate..sigh.
Yes, it is fair..Look at it like this... Your son had adjudication withheld which basically means, if he behaves himself, his charge will 'go away',even though he was convicted of a felony, SO, if he moved to my state and they decided the judge was wrong and he is once again a felon..Is that fair? No, of course not... Is it fair that if I move to FloriDUH I would be required to register for life even though Dec 2014, I no longer have to register? No, of course not..A State Judge ordered that I register for 10 yrs, should I be forced to register for life without due process? Isn't that what we all fight for?? You see? When your son was sentenced, the Judge did order him to register as a n SO..The Judge had the authority to relieve him of registration at all..
Do I recall that you are/were a history teacher? Please look up the difference between Federal and State's rights..Why is it that my State and many others are not SORNA compliant...It is called State's rights, the Feds can't force a state to adopt it, that is why they try to blackmail them by with holding the Byrne Grant money..

"I know you are just trying to help".. Please don't try to 'Patronize" me because I am just a dumb brainwashed conservative who decided that serving his Country was more important than going to college and being indoctrinated by 'LibTard' professors who, like our current,(sigh) POTUS, have never lived in the real world....I am willing to bet that you were 'Bad Mouthing" MY Country long before your son got in trouble.
Now, I have been as polite as I intend to be, and you will be happy to know that this is the last time i will ever waste my time responding to one of your posts, what's the point? If I said the sky is blue, you'd say it was pink...

Registries in each state are governed by the statutes that created them. In WI for instance, if you move here your conviction will be compared with the statues here and the registry time will be applied for the comparable crime. But once you are registered here in WI you will be on it for life, doesn't matter if you move, you will register that out of state address and pay the $100 fee every year to do it to. (Even if you are removed from a registry in another state, because if for whatever reason they find out that you were convicted of a crime that requires registration, they will arrest for not complying and give you another felony. Now that is if they find out, if they decide to prosecute, etc. that is where picking the right area within a state is essential.)

What Coastie said is correct, states are sovereign from the federal government, they can make their own rules for the citizens that reside within their boarders, based on what they believe their citizens want/need. That is why some states are SORNA compliant and the rest are not.

As far as leaving the deceased on the registries, well we all know that they are bloated, the states complain that it costs so much to maintain those registries. The result is what you are seeing, people not being removed because the process that is in place to remove people is inadequate or even non-existent. Which then leads to what we have today.

Wow Coastie - that is all I can say. And by the way - just because my son is adjudication withheld his charge and the registry will never go away - Florida law forbids it. I regret you mistakenly perceived my comments as some kind of attack - it was not that at all.

Also, in Florida a judges hands are tied as far as the registry is concerned. The law is a mandatory one - only certain juveniles can be removed from Florida registry by a judge. He actually apologized to my son and did the best he knew how. So the registry was not ordered by the judge it is mandated by the charge. Florida takes the easy way out - everyone get the same registry time no matter what.

Wisconsin does the same thing... if the charge is on the list of the life time registration statutes then that's just that. If you move and your charge is similar to one of those charges then it gets changed for the WI registry. So you could come here and have only 10 yrs on the registry and arrive and be a lifer on the registry.

Yeah, I could feel Coastie jumping down your throat Advocate;

Coastie, no one slammed you for who you are or what your views are. I too am conservative, and did not see a comment that was intended to begrudged you because of your conservative views. We are here to vent our frustrations against the system...let's stick to that.

Thank you Thought - I was a little surprised actually