Once released from prison, should be mandated to post a sign in their yard or on their door letting everyone know a sex offender lives there.

Just like Ron White said..."Because I no longer care about your rights"

hell, they should have to wear shirts that say it

sick f'kers

never mind that...killem all

agreed they should also have parental controls...there is one on here that i know of...

Megans list any good?

screw that put em all on an island with biggest horniest convicts in the world...then the offenders become the offended

It sounds good but its a bad idea


I care about peoples rights

agreed...shirts with their names a, case number or numbers/ and what they were convicted for.

Bull f'in ****.
As far as I am concerned their legal rights and libirties are already being denied as it is. By the letter of the law, when someone is sent to prison, they are sent for rehabilitation purposes as well. And when they are released they are deemed to have served their punishment and are thus rehabilitated.
A person that shopl;ifts and is sentenced to jail, does their time and then is released anddoes nt have to register or anything. Because they are considered rehabilitated. So to force anyone else who has been released from prison, no matter what their offense is, to register with the public or whatever, is absolute bull****. It is already a matter of public record that they were arrested, charged and sentenced. To follow them the rest of their lives is tatamount to harrasment and prejudice.

Now, don't get me wrong. I agree with registration, just not public availability to that list. Police, school, churches etc, anywhere kids are at should have access for background screening purposes. Police, in case something happens in the area the person is living, can immediately check them out and either arrest or cross them out as the case may be.

Thank you Daniel, I am glad at least some people on this site still have some common sense and decency to them.

Some people are just so ready to cast stones and condemn people. Ready to take away peoples rights, Just wait until the day that the government wants to take away your rights for something you did, or worse something that had nothing to do with you in the first place. See how much you are all yelling to strip people of their rights then.

It depends on what they did. I know someone who is a sex offender becuse when he turned 18 the mother of his girlfriend turned him in. The girl was 11 months younger than him. Now maybe it wasn't right for them to be having sex, but it was consensual & they were very close in age. This man is now 27 & a father, he is not allowed to go to his own daughter school events becuase of his sex offender status. This doesn't seem right to me.

Wouldn't work...cause then you would have fine outstanding "citizens" imposing their own judgement on them, it's bad enough with the sex offender registry. If you really want to do something donate money to prison's for rehabilitation, it can be reversed its just most prison's don't have the finances to provide such a program.

Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion. At least I wont call yours bullsh1t. I am a little more mature than that...

But IMO, I have the "right" to know as a parent to protect my child. Being in prison does not mean they got better. That is a sickness, not a bad habit of stealing something. Sex offenders are a flat out menace to society and should be exposed to every fashion possible to protect the innocent.

Not only that, but think for one second. I don't know the numbers, and I doubt it would be possible to get an accurate count anyway, of how many "sex offenders" are actually people who were prosecuted when they ere eighteen years old, and had sex with their 17 y/o girlfriend? Or 19/17. You get the idea.
Until very recently, a girls PARENTS had the right to prosecute for rape (and don't claim statutory over regular, rape is rape) if there daughter had sex one day prior to her 18th birthday, and the judge would condemn. And then we (the people) created a mandatory registration for all sex offenders, so now, that 18 or 19 year old boy who simply had consentual sex with his 17 year old girlfriend, is branded for life for something he is NOT guilty of; being a sex offender.

As I said, I do agree with a NATIONAL registry, that is seen by those who need to see it, i.e. the law, schools or anyplace else that works with children or seniors (those who cannot protect themselves). but we the general population, do not have any right or need to that information. If you want it, then just open your eyes, and read the newspapers or watch the news it is well publicised when someone is convicted. If you are so lazy or unconcerned that you do not remember this information when the guy gets out, then it is not a big deal for you in the first place.
This is not the 1700's people, and we don't have witch hunts anymore.

yes you have the right to open your eyes and ears and pay attention in the first place when the person first gets sentenced. That is your notice form society that this person is there. It is now your responsibility to retain this information that you were given publicly for the future; especially considering you know he WILL be released some day.

And I am sorry but anything that removes the rights and liberties of another human being, once they are no longer in the penal system is bullchit. You, nor I, nor anyone else has the right to condemn a man to a life of ridicule, shame and discrimination. Only the law has that right. Which, as I said the law should have a registry of all offenders, because some of them WILL repeat yes (and as far as I am concerned second offense should mean automatic removal from society for life). But the majority of offenders from what I have read over the years and seen on the news do NOT repeat. It is just like any other situation; one bad apple ruins it for the rest. In other words, you have 5000 offenders, and ten of them repeat the crime after they are released. All of a sudden the other 4990 offenders are automatic repeat offenders, even though they have not done so, and probably wont do so. And people wonder why so many offenders do NT register after they have gotten out; or they register, and then move away without changing their information. It's becasue they want to simply live their life the way they have a right to do so, without the harrasment and persecution they otherwise face.

well i will go one step further

i do not think they should be released from prison

child molestation breeds child molestation

those molested have a higher chance of becoming molesters

thus lets stop the spread by keeping the convicted out of the public domain

just a thought

but hey what do i know

I agree in so far in the case of repeat offenders (although I tend to believe in penal colonies more than prison). But you HAVE to give a person a chance to reform first. And especially in the case of a teenager being prosecuted by his girlfriends parents, you HAVE to give them the chance to show that they are not a danger to society. As I said, there are very few in the end who will repeat their offenses, so you can not punish them for what the few bad ones do.