CO: Controversial Bill Surrounding Sex Offenders To Get First Committee Hearing
The council says the bill would allow the parole board to release people convicted of violent sex crimes as long as they’re signed up for community-based treatment and are considered a manageable risk.
It would also prevent treatment providers from limiting an offenders contact with children without a court order and would create a new risk-based sex offender registry. A nine-person board would decide who should be on the registry. Police and prosecutors would no longer get a vote.
A non-mandatory, risk-based registry!
While far from perfect, light years ahead of FL, even to be discussing it.
Indiana done a similar thing. Only they left it up to the Department of corrections and they labeled damn near everyone as a predator even those convicted of urinating in public. Florida’s sex offender registration might be stricter but Indiana sex offender laws are 0 tolerance and not retroactive unless it’s to add more to the registry. Consider yourself lucky if you dont live here
I just moved to Indiana and have found all my interactions to be pleasant. I can vote here. Take my kid to a park. I guess it’s up to the individual to determine. I’m not saying I’ll live here forever, but so far it’s not bad
Floriduhha is also zero tolerance. That bill is CO. Not here
While I don’t agree with the registry on any level, a risk based approach to determine if and for how long someone should be on the registry would be a welcome change. There is no reason for everyone in Florida to be on the registry for 25 years to life with no regard to any other factors. Most first time offenders should not be on it longer than their probation or sentence.
I also agree Law Enforcement is not the group to make these decisions. I am not sure who should be on these boards but I know what the answer will be if its only FDLE employees.
Who would be in the board you ask? Here are a few possibilities:
Lobbyists
Lawmakers
ITM group
I agree with the idea of having a risk based registry being far better than a mandatory. But consider the possibilities of who might be placed in charge and the politics surrounding/within it…
Caveat Emptor and all that.
Do any lobbyists or lawmakers sit on any existing state SOR boards?
As for who should be on the Florida Board Committee, if it should ever come to this?? (1) Three (3) Blacks(3) Whites(3) Others. (2)Three(3) Faith-Based,(3)Doctor’s and (3) ex-felon that is no longer on the sex offenders registry.
The problem with a “risk based approach” is that everyone will be considered a heightened risk by default. Sheer numbers will prevent any meaningful assessment and in the end, nothing will change. Tiering was supposed to be effective too, wasn’t it? Some states have been doing it for years, and it hasn’t made that much difference.
Cali is just now moving to a Tiered Registry, but this Colorado idea sounds soooo much better. Imagine, a Registry based on actual risk level! How truly revolutionary!! 👍🏻
This is great news!! In fact,anything that can help sex offenders return to a normal life is great news. I have been on the registry in Florida for a total of 11 years now,and I still haven’t seen or talked to anyone yet! No Judge, No Caseworker or Review Board!!! Only just one person at the courthouse,a female FDLE officer who could’ve been having a day or holding onto something that may have happen to her or a family member in the past. Unfortunately, this is taking place in the State of Colorado and not the State of Florida. where it is much needed! Not only do we need a risk-based registry,but also a nine-person hearing and review board committee where the accuser can be present to dispute and defend themselves.
We don’t need a “risk based registry.” We need no registry. Find one single crime outside of registry violations that the registry played any role in investigating. If you can, find one single thing that was on the registry that wasn’t already available though NCIC or the state counterparts that feed it.
After that, explain how the registry hindered the few and far between sexual recidivists.
Further, to be a reasonably accurate “risk-based” registry, it would have to include every single person that has never been arrested for a sex crime because 95+ percent of new sex crimes are committed by current non-registrants.
I remember an old CSI episode where a family attempted to cover the death of the youngest daughter by pinning it on someone they randomly picked out of the registry. I can’t help but wonder how many times that has actually happened.
What state is this bill going to be implemented in and what is the bill?
Colorado
Risk-based tiering has made a HUGE difference in states like OR, MA, and others. Unfortunately even those states that do tiering are not risk-based, in most cases.
Was listening to this video and this bill about this compromise. Even as some say on here anything to help rid this registry, or the pitfalls is good but does each state compromise on judgment or make vain judgements. It all goes back on registry of guilt.
Even when people take a plea deal such as I did that was a compromise and yes I wanted to go to court and the lawyer I had knew it and so did the arresting officer. The officer calls me in that night before the trial and makes me a plea deal says everything will be ok if I plead guilty… gives me a bit of a wink and says trust me. While some may say this bill is good the registry is a bit of a dicey way to seek justice.
As he was leading me to the courtroom that day. I ask him if he was a christian and yes a christian follows christian principals… one could say, is this registry shakey ground for the many involved or caught up or do we as many of you all say need a registry of this type of deception, or who is leading who.
After the whole ordeal was over we had a talk and yes he admited in certain words that this is a game but its a tragic game to many. Even during the web text they wanted me to come down to just talk dirty to them. I have to admit I did talk a bit dirty. Second night was different but the same voice, and they even blocked me out of the chatter I was texting too.
Sure the authorities ask me for pictures and other items to make a case. Even going down their a lady calls me on the cell phone and ask why are you taking so long in anticipation and right their is were I asked to back out.
I accidently bumped into that lady and she said if it was brought to court she would deny about it or not tell the truth about it. And yes that encounter happened that second night and I was even on an adult website during the whole ordeal. So compromising is no good in any court of justice. Christian understanding can go a long ways and in many ways the registry should be banned by computer methods.
Prosecutors lobby successfully to kill it:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/denver.cbslocal.com/2021/06/04/transform-sex-offender-management-pulled-colorado-bill-claims-hurt-public-safety/%3famp