Twenty-two years late, but finally here
Sep. 1st, 2006 08:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsIf you live in Ohio, and you're into S&M, or are gay, or have any interest in sex outside of the missionary position, get out of there now. Really. And make sure that the evil that has come to Ohio doesn't follow you wherever you go.
An Ohio legislative panel yesterday approved-- without debate or opposition-- a bill that would create a Civil Sex Offenders Registry. The law would allow the country prosecutors or, at the request of an aggreived citizen, a state judge, to place anyone-- anyone at all-- on the registry even if they have never been charged with, much less convicted of, a crime.
A person on the registry would be treated as a sex offender for the purpose of public notification: his name, photograph and address would be published on the Internet and community notification requirements would be in place wherever he lived. After six years he could petition the court to have his name removed. The court would consider any new complaints in that period and would interview the registered person to assess whether or not that person was likely to abuse in the future.
Ed Brayton has more. And I think he doesn't go far enough: I think every legislator who failed to consider this bill and let it go through unopposed should have a big fucking tattoo across his forehead: Destroyed lives without due process.
An Ohio legislative panel yesterday approved-- without debate or opposition-- a bill that would create a Civil Sex Offenders Registry. The law would allow the country prosecutors or, at the request of an aggreived citizen, a state judge, to place anyone-- anyone at all-- on the registry even if they have never been charged with, much less convicted of, a crime.
A person on the registry would be treated as a sex offender for the purpose of public notification: his name, photograph and address would be published on the Internet and community notification requirements would be in place wherever he lived. After six years he could petition the court to have his name removed. The court would consider any new complaints in that period and would interview the registered person to assess whether or not that person was likely to abuse in the future.
Ed Brayton has more. And I think he doesn't go far enough: I think every legislator who failed to consider this bill and let it go through unopposed should have a big fucking tattoo across his forehead: Destroyed lives without due process.
