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.
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.
If they pull this shit in Florida i will move out i pay shit for this
Welcome to Justice Robert’s price club with a membership fee now.
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
The old adage is ” things get worse before they get better”. Let’s hope not, things are bad enough already.
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. !!!!.