re: #128 RogueOne

If I’m reading that right, 12 days earlier it would have been ok. So because he was over the age by less than 2 weeks he’ll forever be a sex offender.

I understand the desire to keep a close eye on sex offenders, but the emotion around sex crimes just makes it the worse when people who clearly aren’t dangerous or evil get put on the list. I read an article a while back that talked about men who ended up being registered because they’d been convicted decades ago of consensual homosexual acts—things that aren’t illegal any longer.

It also worries me for selfish reasons—how am I supposed to make use of a registry, if the guy up the street may be a pedophile, or may be an ex-teenager who got caught in a statutory rape technicality, or may be a veteran who got caught fooling around with a friend in the Navy the year my mom was born? (One of the examples they gave…a really sweet old guy who was mad as hell…)