Rethinking the ‘Sex Offender’ Label By Derek W. Logue
Last week, on Nov. 19, members of the Colorado Sex Offender Management Board (SOMB) took a critical first step in altering the language used to label those convicted of a sexual offense while in treatment towards a “person-first” perspective.
This effort was not without opposition.
The victim advocates and representatives from county prosecutors unsuccessfully attempted to table the vote and even accused members of the SOMB of not following protocols. Ultimately, the SOMB settled on the phrase, “adults who commit sexual offenses.”
This change does not go far enough.
In the words of one prosecutor who testified at the SOMB hearing, it was just a “longer way to say sex offender.” I agree. Furthermore, the phrase implies the SOMB clients are continuously committing offenses.
Try this on for size. Arrested for indecent exposure 1986. Person was an adult female, no childern etc. in the area. Since then now thirty five years later, i have lost numerous jobs, life threatened by other co workers once the word was out, denied living in areas of my choosing. For an offense such as this there really should be a differed label so it does not ruin a mans life. I’m currently in a state of concern again being 60. I have heard that if you carry this label you can’t even get into a nursing home. I have no other family… my entire life due to a “Blanket Title” as a “Sex Offender” I remember years ago talking with an apartment I wanted to move to and was told that I could’nt because “We don’t rent to people like you” Wow can you imangine? San Deigo CA
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I was just on google news and it caught my attention. It just was listed YouTube so I can’t really answer as to where it came from. I tried to pull it back up after I read it and moved on but couldn’t find it.
I read a supposed news article on YouTube today which has made me very curious as to how often this happens.
It was about some 40 year old guy that grabs a 6 year old girl off the sidewalk and throws her into has car and takes off. Some guy of coarse saw it got a partial license plate number and a description of the car ,and of coarse 30 minutes later made an arrest.
Why this is of note is ,there are a number of red flags. Like the story was completely inundated with commercials every few sentences. They did not give the name of the city or state, no name of the suspect, though they showed a picture and picture of a supposed police officer who made the arrest. No description of the mans vehicle. They gave a first name for the guy that supposedly saw the incident happen and followed the suspect, but no last name. Way to many missing details.
It was a very emotional type write up of this poor little girl and the monster who did such a terrible thing. If it is true , it would be but I have my doubts. It’s my opinion that there are a lot of stories like this that are put out just to raise emotions cause hate and bias and make a lot of money off of it.
Has anyone else noticed this?
Which Youtube account was it? Was it a mainstream media account or is it an “independent media” outlet that caters to only a certain political alignment? Is it affiliated with QAnon or use hashtags that are associated with them, like “Save Our Children”? Is it even a news account, or is it a page that also does pranks or “social experiments”?
Youtube has become a cesspool of largely right wing propaganda and it is growing in prominence. The extreme left can be bad as well but the right wingers are far more prone to acts of violence due to things they see and hear about onlibe.
Being on the registry should include a restoration fee from the state and federal government due to potential loss of income and other societal benefits.
Screw them. Duh…how many would take polygraphs as to what they think sexually?
Hey they left me out. I was a juvenile offender. What do I get relabeled as? A Juvenile who got screwed same as an adult offender? That has about the same affect as the new phrase they decided to use.