I think they all should wear ankle bracelets so they can be tracked at any given time.  This would help eliminate if the person stays over at a friend’s house for the night and doesn’t go home.  It would show how much time is being spent at home and elsewhere.  In my opinion this would be good.

I’m infuriated that even with tracking we let this scum back into society to offend again. As tax payers we should be paying for bullets not ankle monitors.

I never thought Mike B. would say any thing that made sense to me, but I stand corrected.

Jessica’s Law, when passed, will reduce the amount of time sex offenders have to further offend society.  Anyone who molests a child, would be best returned to their creator for updating.  We do not need deviates on the streets nor do we need to waste time attempting to “rehab” them.  They serve no useful purpose in our society and we need to let them know that.  Perhaps, if they knew for sure that socitey would not mollycoddle them, they just might find a way to curb their own need for “a child.”

I think it’s a wonderful idea for the violent, and repetitive, violent sex offenders; however, the requirement for having to register involves a large group of offenders who should not be considered as preditors.
At the age of eighteen, my husband made a mistake by failing to card a girl who claimed she was in his age group. Granted, he was in the wrong by having relations that night, but it WAS consensual, and the girl had consensual relations with more than one male that same night.
To make a long story short, my husband is still forced to register years later. Not only does his charge continue to negatively affect his possibilites in job opportunities, it also hinders our hopes in adopting.
My husband is a wonderful man, and is not a preditor by any sense of the word. Yet, he and I are both plagued by an ugly label that our judicial system has placed on his head.
My husband would love to enlist in the military to defend our country. Unfortunately, the recruiter told us that, “...sex offenders cannot enlist because the military life involves being around children on a regular basis.”
HELLO!!MY HUSBAND IS NOT A PREDATOR!!!!!!!!!!!!
He does not deserve to be banned from any park. He does not deserve to be declined job opportunities. We do not deserve to be deprived of the option to adopt.
He (as a teenager) made the same mistake that a lot of teens make. I would like to see situations as these to be taken into consideration.
Like I said, the new methods of identifying and tracking sex offenders are wonderful. At the same time, we need to take into consideration circumstances that are non-violent.

Good point.  Your husband’s situation is one of the reasons the age of sexual consent was lowered from eighteen to sixteen.  I think, as parents and people who educate teens in any way, that we need to do a much better job of making sure they understand that the rules absolutely WILL change the DAY they turn eighteen.  I have a minor.  I don’t allow him to hang out with kids who are more than two years away from his age in either direction so they will all be held accountable for their own behavior.  In situations like your husband’s, I believe someone should have been asking where the girl’s parents were and why they didn’t know where she was because it is their responsibility to know where she is until she is legally accountable for her own decisions.  I’m not defending sexual predators.  I’m just admitting that there are some predatory teens, and your husband sounds like he met one of them.