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MI - Bills would revamp sex offender list

Original Article 02/23/2011 By Ken Kolker Hearing Wednesday was first step in process LANSING (WOOD) - Convicted sex offenders testified Wednesday at a state Senate hearing -- the first step in a process that could radically change Michigan's sex offender registry. "The sex offender registry is outrageous and nothing but a huge witch hunt," testified a woman, who told members of the Senate Judiciary Committee she was convicted of sexual contact, a misdemeanor, landing her on the list for 25 years. Another woman said her son cut his wrists after somebody he knew discovered he was on the list for having consensual sex as a young boy. "He was a child. They don't know better," she said. "Their brains are not developed enough to know." A man said he lost his job at General Motors, and that neighbors don't invite him to graduation parties after he pleaded no contest to misdemeanor sexual touching...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on February 24, 2011 (boomark / email).