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IL - One-size-fits-all laws for sex offenders miss the mark

Original Article HB-1139 02/15/2011 By Gina Harkins [name withheld] is a 22-year-old college student. He plays guitar and writes and records his own music. He likes watching ?The Office? and ?Family Guy,? and will eat anything with bacon. He is also a registered sex offender. When he was 18, [name withheld], of Loves Park, began dating a girl who was 15. The age difference of three years did not seem important at time. He?ll now spend more than three times that amount listed on the Illinois Sex Offender Registration. A registry he said ruins people?s lives. ?I want to try to inform the public that not every sex offender is the same and not every sex offender should be treated the same,? [name withheld] said in a telephone interview. [name withheld] said he has been unable to obtain employment since being charged with criminal sexual abuse, a misdemeanor in the state of Illinois for which he?s serving two years of probation...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 18, 2011 (boomark / email).