Tag: residency bans
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The sex offender registry was sold to the public as a reasonable safety measure. One of its most insidious legal tricks is the so-called “balancing test” — where judges weigh your constitutional rights against the government’s claimed “public safety” interest and almost always decide the government wins. People who made a bad decision are still…
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The sex offender registry was sold to the public as a targeted safety measure. One of its most destructive features is residency bans that prohibit registrants from living within 500, 1,000, or even 2,500 feet of schools, parks, daycare centers, or any place where children might gather. In many areas these rules make large portions…
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The sex offender registry was sold to the public as a simple administrative list. In reality, it functions as a parallel justice system that bypasses due process entirely. Once a person is placed on the registry — often after a single bad decision years or decades ago — they are subjected to lifelong public shaming,…
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The sex offender registry was sold to the public as a simple “civil regulatory scheme” — just a list to inform the public, nothing more. Politicians and courts repeated this phrase like a magic spell to make the constitutional problems disappear. In reality, the registry is punishment in every way that matters. It imposes lifelong…
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The sex offender registry was sold to the public as a targeted safety measure. One of its most common and destructive features is residency bans that prohibit registrants from living within 500, 1,000, or even 2,500 feet of schools, parks, daycare centers, or any place where children might gather. In many areas these rules make…