WY: Sex offenders now pay the cost of supervision
Previous source of cash has run dry, so the state charges registrants for every change of status.
A new Wyoming law means sex offenders must now pay to register or make changes to their registration. If they ignore the new law, they’re subject to criminal charges.
It’s a big change for both offenders and law enforcement. In Teton County, where many residents are transient, the law was already tough to enforce.
“Say we get a tourist come in from out of town who isn’t currently registered in Wyoming,” Teton County Sheriff’s Sgt. Todd Stanyon said. “It’s going to cost them $150 bucks to register with us for initial registration. Say they stay for two weeks. Then when they deregister to tell us they’re leaving, they’re going to have to pay the $31.25.
It has been over 22 years since my offence. I took a plea bargain because I was promised help. Thank God I got the help but now it would seem that I also got a life time sentence instead of the 5 years that I served. I pled guilty to a charge that could not be proven in court just so I could get the help I needed. I do not regret the time I served because I got the help I needed. To date I have not had even a parking ticket. Yet they keep passing laws that interfere with my life as a punishment.
Can this be legal has anyone challenged this. They make it so we can’t get a decent job and then charge you for a crazy scheme they came up with ?
servedmitym when you Reg Sex offender you don’t get a JOB you become our own Boss i mow grass for a living before that i was a TV repair Man just thank of something you good at and go with it.
I have been paying Florida $360 a month…that’s a ‘month’…since April 2009. I think of all the good that money could have done instead of feeding a bloated Florida bureaucracy. The system knows I should be released from probation and Virginia is ready to release me with Florida’s recommendation, but Florida is not about to let go of this ‘cash cow’ as long as they can stay silent and get away with inflicting an injustice with bureaucratic benefits. The victim, my daughter, and I made up long ago and yet the system continues to want to punish my family and continue her in a ‘victim status’. I have a lawyer who is going to force the issue. It’s a shame it has to come to this.
i would move back to va for a week, a month, 3 months and get it ended
I have had that previously recommended but I built my retirement home here in Florida. I served my country in the Navy for 29 years and I am not about to let some ‘puny ass’ politicians run me out of my home. If anything I will stay here and expose them for what they are. Already many who have come to know me or have known me for years have seen the injustice…and that includes the victim, my daughter. She cannot understand why the bureaucrats insist on destroying families since the problem withing the family has been solved. All I can figure out is money and job security.
I meant move back just long enough to get off paper
From what I understand, Duval County is now demanding registrants to pay a fee for their registration. Oh, and by the way, they have threatened registrants if they are able to pay and don’t with Jail time.