NC- Sex Offender Takes Concerns About New Law To Legislator

Important here are the lawmaker's comments: In essence, he is not responsible if someone MISREADS the law he wrote. Hey world do you have your ESP working, because it appears here thats the only way to understand how he wrote the law! Lets see, what channel or frequency do I tune in to, to get into his mind? Even qualified lawyers are having troubles, the average person has no chance. SOunds like he needs to hear from ALL of the public..

9-4-2009 North Carolina:

GASTONIA, N.C. -- A knock with no response at a legislator’s door was not enough for Kristy Hammonds on Wednesday.

Hammonds is a sex offender who was told this week that she would be arrested if she returned to Wilkes Community College. A new addition to the Jessica Lunsford Act makes it illegal for sex offenders to go the college where high school students take some classes.

“If I were a murderer or rapist, I could go to college. But people like me can't go to college,” she said.

Three years ago, Hammonds pleaded no contest to misdemeanor sexual battery of 14-year-old. She then made headlines as one of the Conover Domino's workers who did strange thing with pizza dough and posted video of it online.

She said she has changed, and now she is the victim of bad legislation.

“My civil rights are broken so someone is going to have to pay for that,” she said. “I have to provide a future for a baby.”

So Wednesday she grabbed her daughter and left her Taylorsville home to head to the Gastonia office of Senator David Hoyle, the sponsor of Jessica’s Law.

When she got no answer at the office, she called his cell phone.

“Only thing I can tell you to do is get a lawyer,” Hoyle said.

“He's telling me I should sue the school because of a law he made. I don't think that's right,” Hammonds responded.

Eyewitness News also called Hoyle. He said the law wasn't intended to keep people like Hammonds out of school.

“Any law was pass, none of them are perfect,” he said.

He said he is only responsible for passing the law, not enforcing it.

“If it's justifiable it needs to be changed, yes sir we'll change it,” Hoyle said.

The General Assembly won't meet until May, however.

Eyewitness News has asked a lot of questions about the new law and how other colleges are handling it in the Charlotte area. Central Piedmont Community College and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte responded Wednesday and said neither is actively enforcing the law.

A spokesperson at Central Piedmont said the school does not ask about criminal history and doesn't know if they have sex offenders on campus. The representative said it's up to the sex offender to come forward and take himself or herself out of any situation where minors are present.

Eleventh and 12th-grade high school students are on campus regularly in dual-enrollment programs.

A spokesperson for UNCC said the school is not removing sex offenders from campus, either, but they do ask students to divulge their criminal history. Students are not obligated to do so, however.

Attorneys at the school said they still have questions about the law. ..Source.. by Ken Lemon.