TIL Children as young as eight can and have been put on the sex offender registry, which lasts the rest of their lives.
Registries continue to punish youth years and even decades after they have served time. Data and research show that registries don’t improve public safety.
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Which bullshit and we need to fix that. I remember listening to a podcast about the woman who help create that after her son was taken. She says she regrets the program and wish she never created it because of shit like this.
The problem is that saying that you want to get rid of the registry, it's people looking at you funny and automatically assuming that you must be some kind of creep if you have a problem with "punishing creeps"
That list isn't going anywhere unless you educate people on just how strict the rules are for people on the list and how lenient the rules are for getting people on to the list.
Relevant stand up from Gianmarco Soresi:
https://youtube.com/shorts/jcXK-sPqsL0?si=TbKCSu5EFWIX_JMg
Sorry for the shorts link, was the easiest to find quickly for just this segment.
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