“Unique Identifier” revealed for Sex Offender Passports
The US Department of State issued a press release friday announcing the “unique identifier it will be using for the passports of covered sex offenders. it reads:
On February 8, 2016, Congress enacted the International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (IML) (Public Law 114-119).
The IML prohibits the Department of State from issuing a passport to a covered sex offender without a unique identifier, and it allows for the revocation of passports previously issued to these individuals that do not contain the identifier (22 USC 212b).
The identifier is a passport endorsement, currently printed inside the back cover of the passport book, which reads: “The bearer was convicted of a sex offense against a minor, and is a covered sex offender pursuant to 22 United States Code Section 212b(c)(l).” Since endorsements cannot be printed on passport cards, covered sex offenders cannot be issued passport cards.
Only the DHS/ICE Angel Watch Center (AWC) can certify an individual as a “covered sex offender.” Therefore, any questions by the applicant about such status must be directed to and resolved by AWC.
Applicants who have questions for AWC regarding their status or believe they have been wrongly identified as a covered sex offender as defined in Title 22 United States Code 212b(c)(1) should contact AWC at DHSintermeganslaw@ice.dhs.gov.
Please stop with the partisan crap – ALL politicians are responsible for ALL of this absurdity. From the very beginning they are all continuing to operate under false information including SCOTUS. THEY are all responsible. Obama did not create RSO laws. People in jobs like the presidency have to rely on those around them. They do not have time to research everything – therefore, when you have the justice department and SCOTUS telling you this is needed and why you believe them. I cannot tell you how many times in my lifetime I have heard a politician change their mind about something AFTER they were out of public service and had a chance to review facts from the outside.
So basically we are prisoners in our own country but the U.S. has the nerve to point out other countries civil rights abuses.
why not put this info in the magnetic strip
Steve
With all that is happening first the Florida drivers license and now this there must be to many of us offenders doing everything correctly. Great job travel around the state on vacations obey the laws.
We must be ruining the status quo of what our government wants our society to believe
2 reasins not to put this info on the magnetic strip. 1 every country may not have the capability of reading it I’m thinking 3rd world countries 2 it doesn’t humiliate you enough. It’s not enough unless every hotel clerk or car rental agent or bank you deal with while abroad thinks your a monster
The IML mark is interesting because not all registered citizen are convicted and not all crimes are against a minor. It will be interesting to see if the federal government makes that distinction.
Yes Karen I was thinking the same thing. So rapist and other sexual crimes against adults are not covered. It is just bull crap. My charge is attempted and there was no victim and those pieces of info always gets lost.
Wasn’t there an appeal of some sort against the IML last year? What happened to that and can anything be done to rule IML illegal?
It was dismissed.
There will be another challenge brought.
Because its purpose is to shame and punish, not inform and protect.
If I recall, the judge wouldn’t hear the case because the litigants hadn’t been affected by the stamp yet and therefore lacked standing. Now that it’s being implemented and people will be affected a new suit will be brought with standing.
os if iam a rso in florida and I move to some other state and removed off the register does that mean I will not
have to register on the national sex offender registry
and my past port will not show my past rso?.
That is not correct.
If you have questions, you should contact the Angel Watch center – the contact information is in the post. Please share their response here.