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Missouri sex offender registry includes those busted for public urination

By "eAdvocate"

12-1-2010 Missouri: St. Louis, MO (KSDK) -- With more than 12,000 people on Missouri's sex offender registry, some groups are advocating change. They argue law enforcement can't keep track of everyone on the list. To make the system more efficient and fair, groups like Missouri Citizens for Reform want all non violent offenders removed from the list. Dennis Conlin started Missouri Citizens for Reform. "Not everybody on the registry is violent," Conlin said. "Should the Romeo and Juliet case where the 19-year-old boy is having consensual sex with 15-year-old girl, should he be on the registry for life? I don't think so. Should a person being accused of urinating in public be on the registry for life? No, I don't think so." Conlin said the current system lumps all offenders together and brands everyone, even those arrested for streaking, with a lifetime scarlet letter...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Offender Issues, News, Recidivism and Studies on December 01, 2010 (boomark / email).