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Seeking refinement in sex offender registration requirements

By Douglas A. Berman

This fascinating article from the Houston Chronicle, headlined "Unlikely force fighting sex crime's stigma: Texas Voices wants laws to note difference between dangerous predators, nonviolent offenders," spotlights a group seeking to refine which and how offenders appear on sex offender registries.  Here is an excerpt: Martin Ezell is tired of the dead-end jobs and unrelenting stigma that comes with being a registered sex offender.... It's true that a decade ago, he was convicted of sexually abusing a 16-year-old girl who was half his age. But the registry doesn't divulge that his victim was his girlfriend who now is his wife, with whom he has three children.... The military veteran, who lives with his family in a bedroom community south of Austin, is so angry about his lifetime registration requirement that he has joined forces with hundreds of other sex offenders similarly aggrieved about being on the registry...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on December 14, 2008 (boomark / email).