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Editorial: Sex offender laws flawed

By "eAdvocate"

The bigger issue is not what this editorial thinks, rather it is, where does the state -OR- local officials derive their authority to modify -even collaterally- the criminal sentence after the fact by adding -civil sanctions- which are not applied accross the board to all folks convicted of crimes. At one point all constitutions had a provision that prohibited laws against or affecting identified groups disfavored in society. Unfortunately it seems to have been removed from state constitutions.12-17-2009 Florida:While two county judges have stricken the least defensible parts of Lee County?s sex-offender registration ordinance as too broad, the bigger issues with this kind of law remain.We need a rational discussion of those issues. Our laws get more draconian because it?s politically popular to marginalize and punish sex offenders ? often for good reason...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 17, 2009 (boomark / email).