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Aristoph posted...

Of course. I believe (as does my coworker) that restrictions should be placed on sex offenders. But there's a big difference between saying "you can't live near a school" and saying "you must be publicly humiliated every day for the rest of your life regardless of your future actions.

absolutely agreed. everybody deserves dignity and respect, i find it frustrating when people do anything to strip that away from anyone

Personally, I think public sex offender registries should be abolished. The crimes are part of the public record in court documents and such already. There is no reason sex offenders should be paraded publicly while other very serious crimes are easily lost or forgotten by the public eye.

i dont have any strong feelings about registrys, but i wonder if it would be good for there to be some kind of benefit-recovery program? like if a sex offender can be removed from registries by showing ample progress in therapy (over a long course of time, not immediately). i think that theres validity to their use, because sex offenders are much more likely to be repeat offenders, so there should be some burden of improvement for them to be considered safe enough for people to not be aware of their presence
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