What can the sex offender registry do?
By Sandy Rozek
First published at NARSOL.org
“Derek Lawson, registered in Arizona as a sexual offender due to a conviction in 1984 in California, is required by law to register any address where he stays three or more days a month.
“He stayed at the home of Peoria, Arizona’s City Council’s deputy chief, Denette Dunn, ‘intermittently throughout the past year.’
“He did not register her address.
“Mayor Jason Beck and the city council have asked Ms. Dunn to resign her position as deputy chief as her relationship with Lawson has ‘breached public trust’ and ‘depicts behavior that does not uphold the standards of conduct we expect from our public servants.’
“Then other information is – almost reluctantly – given.”
Read more here.
I winder how they would feel if she had let a paroled murderer stay at her house.
Of course the good people of Arizona are outraged. This woman was harboring a fugitive……..ehh…………..I mean a registrant. Well, aren’t they the same?
Arizona 3rd reich getting their knives sharpened https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/peoria/2023/09/05/fiery-meeting-expected-at-peoria-city-hall-after-sex-offender-debacle-vice-mayor-resignation-request/70767754007/
“had intermittently stayed at her house the past year, potentially in violation of state law. The police alleged the man should have registered Dunn’s address, which would have notified the surrounding neighbors.”
Potentially, so you have a civil regulatory scheme that is supposed to be “civil” not punishment, but yet this lady is facing ostracism for being associated with somebody on the registry , and she’s looking to lose her job over potential state violations ( housing), not even proven yet over a civil scheme. Remember, not punishment people it’s not punishment everything associated with the registry is punishment!
How can you possibly say providing a place to stay is recall grounds with a straight face and not correlate that with the registry being punishment? cause that’s what this is about right she’s being punished for having somebody there at her house. Housing a basic right remind you.
What can the registry do? In this instance, it amplifies judgment and hate. Last time I checked, society is not perfect. They don’t reserve the right to judge anyone! I’ve seen the selective “community standards” and how these people that claim to be offended actually live and behave in public.
Thank the registry for protecting its citizens from their own people not on the registry.
Whew..good thing to know the supreme court toilet has convinced us the registry is not punitive…But then again can’t expect much from courts with judges that need a biologist to know what gender they are or that think National Inquirer is a science paper…