WY: Senators say principals should have power to approve registered sex offenders access to schools
House Bill 68 aims to require registered sex offenders to obtain permission from Wyoming school principals or vice principals before they are able to access school grounds for their own children’s events at the schools.
Senate District 23 Senator Jeff Wasserburger, who says he served as a school principal for 14 years, explained the bill to the Senate ahead of their first reading vote on Thursday, March 5.
“For many years I served as a building principal,” he said. “There were situations that were very difficult to deal with.
Current Wyoming law generally forbids registered sex offenders from accessing school grounds, but provides some exceptions, including when they are attending their own children’s academic conferences or extracurricular activities.
Wasserburger said that registered sex offenders with children attending a school should require written permission from principals to attend such events, which is what the bill proposes, noting that this requirement was not in place during his time as a principal.
“I got caught in this situation two separate times in 14 years,” he said. “Both of those times I didn’t have the opportunity to approve. In one case, the registered sex offender was not a risk to my school or to my students.”
At least the WY legislature is engaging in more open and reasoned debate than the FL legislature on such issues. If it passes of course, then it will be worse than FL.
Good on Vicki for getting so much of the truth out there.
Every school official and teacher I havever spoken with complains that they want more parental involvement. Why then, erect more barriers?
If i understood the original (supposed) intent of the registry correctly, the achool would have the name and photo of their registered parents. A simple “keep an eye on this guy” to security guards and teachers in attendance should have been the end of it. Report something if they saw something remiss, but otherwise leave him alone. Odds are there would have been nothing to report.
But no. The registry basically gives the non-registered license to harass and stalk those on it. Strictly regulatory, of course.
It is just more idiocy just like the Registries themselves. The “people” who support it all cannot grow big government too big or have too many “laws”, rules, guidelines, regulations, or procedures. There are never enough for such rudderless, brainless people. They got their giant pile of excrement that they call Registries and they have to keep “tweaking” it and messing with it to try to make it appear sensible and legitimate. They’ll never be able to.
But this situation is super easy, just like all of them. If I had a child attending one of these schools, I don’t want my principal “approving”, or not, People Forced to Register (PFRs). The principal certainly will not have the skill level, information, or magic fortune telling skills to know who may be a “risk” and who may not. They simply shouldn’t be doing it. They should probably focus on education.
Further, I don’t want the principal, teachers, security, etc. to “keep an eye on this guy”. I want them to keep an eye on everyone. Because while those totally unqualified people are watching some PFR, someone else will be trying to molest MY child. And that would piss me off to the point that I’d sue them and try to get them held criminally negligent. They let my child be attacked because they were goofing off with their Registries.
Remember – “people” who support this kind of nonsense are not Americans or our fellow citizens. They must be contained, neutralized, and marginalized. They are a danger.
Typical FEEL GOOD legislation, enveloped in BS.