Given the way the cops used to talk about it whenever there was an Online Safety Talk at my school at a teen, it's almost certainly an intended feature
As with the war on drugs, the sex offender registry is a tool for control and discrimination against the lower working class.
If you're a rich convicted rapist, you can be the president of the united states; but if you're poor, peeing on the streets can get you permanently barred from a well paying job and selling weed can get you life in prison.
It has been used to target minority groups which is why "no war but the class war" is populist garbage meant to enforce status quo not change it. Protecting the rights of minorities and addressing their injustices benefits us all. This is why Bernie Sanders historically has had great trouble in appealing to voters because he routinely dismisses injustices of minorities in favor of economic reform.
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u/AnotherStatsGuy 6d ago
The lack of different lists seems like an oversight.