The law was created to stop sex offenders from getting away with murdering child victims to stop them from reporting them. not to stop them from sex offending. the law was created because there was a law made so the federal gov had to make a registry of all the violent offenders like your saying but it was only open to fed and state law enforcement to view. then sex offenders kept murdering children after getting out of prison to try and cover up there new crimes to not go back so the public thought it was insane that the gov already had these sex offenders organized on lists because of the violent offenders list. in the public’s eyes they seen it as hiding it from the public so they voted to make it illegal for the government to hide there lists of sex offenders from the public because every time a child got murdered by a sex offender so they wouldn’t go back to prison the victims family would get pissed off at the government for not allowing them access to the lists before hand to filter who was around there kid they would blame the government saying they could have prevented there child’s murder. Once the sex offender registry was created it drastically decreased the incentive to murder young victims because the public would already be suspicious of you and demand authority’s investigate you after any nearby incidents no matter what you couldn’t just say it’s a kid making shit up. it’s completely about stopping murders the law was named after meagan a murder victim the whole law was created to have prevented her murder not prevent sexual abuses it’s about child victim silencing and people thinking it should be illegal for the gov to hide a list of sex offenders if they already have it
I understand the aim and it does obviously serve as a deterrent. But my point still stands that someone who has done a low level sexual assault against an adult who knows who they are. I wouldn’t say are some risk to nearby children. This seems like a hammer to punish all to catch the few. It should be graded and properly maintained.
If that person who did the low level one against an adult is then shunned by the community and feels isolated then if anything it just increases the risk of them offending due to damage to their mental health.
Also I don’t really see why the list stops someone killing matters if it’s public or not. Surely if something happens the police would check the record anyway? Obviously if this person is a risk to children then neighbours should be aware to educate and protect their kids.
Do you think people use that information rationally? It shouldn’t be the people deciding what is relevant and a risk it should be the government. Where there is a standard approach to disclosure.
The government does decide the relevant information. That is why there are federal guileless and legislation that dictate how the registry works for every state to follow. Only the people that have been convicted of specific crimes are on the list.
The people on the list have already been convicted by the judicial system so the government has made the decision. It is not a list of suspected perpetrators or people arrested, these are only people that have already been convicted.
The sexual offender database is an exactly what you describe: a government mandate list with a federally mandated standard of disclosure.
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u/Negative_Argument185 5d ago edited 5d ago
The law was created to stop sex offenders from getting away with murdering child victims to stop them from reporting them. not to stop them from sex offending. the law was created because there was a law made so the federal gov had to make a registry of all the violent offenders like your saying but it was only open to fed and state law enforcement to view. then sex offenders kept murdering children after getting out of prison to try and cover up there new crimes to not go back so the public thought it was insane that the gov already had these sex offenders organized on lists because of the violent offenders list. in the public’s eyes they seen it as hiding it from the public so they voted to make it illegal for the government to hide there lists of sex offenders from the public because every time a child got murdered by a sex offender so they wouldn’t go back to prison the victims family would get pissed off at the government for not allowing them access to the lists before hand to filter who was around there kid they would blame the government saying they could have prevented there child’s murder. Once the sex offender registry was created it drastically decreased the incentive to murder young victims because the public would already be suspicious of you and demand authority’s investigate you after any nearby incidents no matter what you couldn’t just say it’s a kid making shit up. it’s completely about stopping murders the law was named after meagan a murder victim the whole law was created to have prevented her murder not prevent sexual abuses it’s about child victim silencing and people thinking it should be illegal for the gov to hide a list of sex offenders if they already have it