A review of the bills presented leaves one to wonder if the average homeless person, without the aid of a lawyer, would ever be able to comply because such a person simply will not be able to understand the law. Further, changing the frequency of registration -for this subclass- opens up questions of discrimination.3-5-2010 Michigan:
Hardiman introduces new legislation
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) - Sen. Bill Hardiman introduced legislation Thursday that may offer a solution to the sex offender registry loophole.
A state court earlier this year ruled homeless individuals do not have to register since -- by law -- the act requires those on the list to have a home.
Hardiman, R-Kentwood, introduced legislation to change the language of the law, allowing the homeless to be listed on the registry.
Rather than a residence, the area in which a homeless sex offender lives would be made public.
The purpose of the Sex Offender Registration Act was to help keep track of all sex offenders, said Hardiman in a news release. "We must fix this problem with the registry, so that all sex offenders are included in the system, whether they have a residence or not." ..Source.. WOODTV.com
3 comments:
I wonder when the politician's are going to clue in on the fact that all this sex offender management and legislation is costing a lot of money.
Last time I looked, all 50 states had an economic crisis going on.
If you stop making stupid laws and start listening to organizations like ATSA, then maybe, just maybe you might find less lawsuits against you and more time to concentrate on creating jobs for people.
Stupid politician's. Your fired!!
Can't they understand that these very same types of laws are the reason for the homelessness of thousands of sex offenders across the nation? As each politician tries to out do, out legislate, out victimize and re-punish the sex offender for the "problem" they supposedly created, there shall never be a fair or uniform set of reasonable laws that will actually work for both the public and offender alike. More bad laws will not fix the prior bad laws they created to start with.
Well, it seems to me that if some offenders only need the area where they live advertised on the internet, then under equal protection principles, no offender should be required to provide more than the area where they live - and not a full address.
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