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NY - Schumer's Sex Offender Hysteria

Original Article (Norman Pattis Blog) 12/20/2010 No one wants children exposed to men and women who might do them harm. This instinct to protect the innocent is at the very core of the sex offender registration laws. But when those laws fail to draw elementary distinctions between strangers who pose danger and those caught unawares in the law's libidinal traps, there is something wrong. Sex offender registries should not become virtual prisons that deprive increasingly broader segments of our society of life's basics. Senator Charles Schumer of New York has proposed sweeping new legislation that would make it virtually impossible for anyone convicted of a sex offense to work in a location or at a facility where they might have access to children...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues on December 21, 2010 (boomark / email).