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.
Can the insanity get any worse???
if the state cant cover the cost then shut down the registration.
it does not work. is the government running out of money?.
for this bs.
Looks like the federal gravy train may have slowed down a bit.
This is just proof positive that our state and federal governments are going BROKE! And they will fleece every aspect of the population that they can. One day soon, they will just seize all of our assets to help their debt problem. You watch.
There is no way they will be able to collect this money from enough registrants to make this work.
We won’t be able to fix the messed up system by venting for it is exactly what our politicians are doing. Let’s collect signatures, fund a FAC that can operate strong against the injustice. Something’s got to give or we will be in status quo forever.
IT’S NOT JUST ABOUT THE MONEY!
More importantly it is about the “value” that sex offenders are to the political machine as a source of fear mongering not unlike the “war on drugs” and the “war on terror” – we are used as a valuable political tool to manipulate and control the population with FEAR.
This registry has NEVER been about protecting kids or anyone at all. It is used to 1) declare and dictate moral behaviours with the harsh and ever harsher punishments for those caught breaking these moral taboos. 2) to create an “unwinnable” war that appears to be real but is not. How is this done? By lumping so many “crimes” into a broad category and then labelling ALL those caught up in the trap as Sex Offenders.
A meaningless term synonymous in the general public’s mind with a child molestor even when the vast majority of those with the label did NOT do have anything to do with a child and in fact, in many cases they are are “guilty” of totally victimless crimes – often just
thought crimes.”
Now this – they are basically forcing you to pay for your own punishment and abuse by the state. Talk about adding insult to injury! First the take away your ability to get a job with this label then the pass a law forcing you to pay for it…with what?
You got it…an easy way for the state to violate sex offenders who cannot or will not pay THIS new punishment raising the reoffense rate artificially to make it appear that these added punishments are needed!
Bullshit on a mind blowing level that only politicians could possible come up with! A self sustainable neverending and unwinnable (by design) “war” that works just like the “war” on drugs and terror to manipulate with fear.
Only from the twisted mind of a politician can come such utter logic defying crap! Well I say that since this is a war against us that we need to fight back and thank you to FAC for doing that for those who cannot defend themselves from a rigged system determined to see that they fail!
This is just a blatant example as to the depths of stupidity the RSO’s laws have reached. If it is so critical that RSO’s must be monitored then is is up to state law enforcement to pick up the bill. If not, then these laws need to be placed neatly into the ‘dumpster of life’ and all citizens who have paid their debts move on with life. This is too beautiful a country to let insecure, paranoid low life policy makers screw it up.
Short sighted and idiotic ex-post facto law again. The RSOs there might be wise to all refuse to pay and have their lawyers point out that the cost of enforcing this new felony will be far more than the piss ant income from the unjust law. The cost of arrest, prosecution, and then incarceration and the whole thing backfires on the state’s tax payers.
Naturally none of us wants to do more time, but…
Sorry to say this. But if we all refuse to pay, Then get arrested for non payment, The Counties make money from the Arrest !!. FLORIDA pays EACH county to incarcerate a inmate. Then the US Government pays FLORIDA. So Florida wants to arrest as many people as possible !!. It’s all about the MONEY. !!!!.
The old adage is ” things get worse before they get better”. Let’s hope not, things are bad enough already.
truly the Beginning of the End, and when the RSO’S cant afford the fee because of the restrictions they live under where a decent meal is sometimes hard to pay for they will be arrested for violating the law or probation
I dont care who out there keeps saying it but its not ever going to get better every time we take a step forward the courts order us us to take two steps back. they say when you hit bottom there is no where to go but up so far in past years all i see for rso’s is more bottom
Welcome to Justice Robert’s price club with a membership fee now.
If they pull this shit in Florida i will move out i pay shit for this
This is not the first state to do this. Wisconsin has been charging me 100.00 a year for the last ten years even though I haven’t stepped foot in the state since my incarceration.
Even though I was never a Wisconsin resident, maintained a Florida residency during incarceration, they require me to register. This “law” was passed two years after I was living back home in Florida, yet I am billed yearly for maintaining registration in a state I will never live in again.
B You need to De register in Wisconsin so they wont keep billing you and show them you are Reg in FL I be Damned if i pay $100.00 in a state that i not even live in they robbing you that’s insane but they wont tell you this they want that money.
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.
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
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.
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.