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Currently the state of Nevada has placed a freeze on Bills SB471 and AB579. These Bills are under Constitutional review.
If enacted this legislation would re-categorize thousands of low-risk sex offenders at higher Tier levels based on flawed judgment. They would also have their names, home addresses, work addresses, license plates, and photos listed on the Internet, placing these former offenders and their families in danger of violence from vigilante cults like Absolute Zero United.
These Bills affect all offenders, both the violent and non-violent. If enacted, you will see teenagers who had consensual sex with other teenagers listed next to violent rapists. It is broad-reaching and does nothing to keep children safe, especially since many former offenders have children of their own and there are even some children listed on sex offender registries.
Factually, less than 7% of all sex offenders re-offend and over 90% of sexual abuse will be committed by someone already known to the victim according to the Department Of Justice. Thus, Bills like these are focused in the wrong direction for stopping sexual abuse.

Please take action to strike down Nevada Bills SB471 and AB579 by contacting decision makers at the following blog site - truthseeker.echoz.com

and click on “Contact Nevada Legislators” in the blog roll.

UPDATE

Federal Judge Stops Retroactive State Sex Offender Law! Click here for more info.

 

This is a huge victory for human rights and we hope this decision motivates other states to re-examine draconian sex offender laws and to use common sense instead of hysteria before they decide to enact them.

  Let it be well known that neither I, nor any of us in organizations who oppose sweeping sex offender laws, in any way condone rape, especially the rape of children.

Unfortunately, current SO laws do nothing to prevent sexual abuse. These laws are simply based on feel-good decisions that claim to “protect our kids” when in fact, many children are victimized by them.  Draconian legislation prevents sexual abuse from being reported since many potential abusers and even their victims fear the backlash or public humiliation involved. Not to mention that over 90% of these crimes are committed by people who are not on the Registry. Also, the minority of sex offenders who are truly dangerous are encouraged to go underground, leaving police with no clue as to where they are. So our attention is obviously focused in the wrong direction if we truly want to fight sexual abuse.

We who are on the side of the Constitution fully support legislation that not only preserves the civil rights of law-abiding offenders and their families, but also prevents sexual abuse with treatment for potential abusers and which includes rehabilitation along with punishment for serious offenders. These steps will dramatically help reduce sexual abuse as many experts will testify .

If these misleading sex offender laws continue to be implemented, rape and molestation crimes will continue and perhaps even grow. According to statistics, kids are less safe now than they were 20 years ago.

You may hear in the media that rape crimes have dropped, but remember that it’s impossible to know how often rape occurs since most rape crimes go unreported. Yet, legislators are hell-bent on over punishing people who urinate in public or look at a few dirty pictures on the Net while giving a thumbs up to real abusers who are not on any Registry and encouraging truly high-risk offenders to drop off the radar screen. Do you and your family members really feel safe knowing these facts?

We are dedicated to changing sex offender laws so that everyone will be safer, not just career politicians. So my statement here should clarify what our organizations stand up for - the preservation of the Constitution and prevention of sexual abuse.

Words to safely live by.

 

I’m sure by now, most of you have come across these online criminal search websites where you can locate “dangerous” sex offenders living in your area and “protect your kids” from these monsters.

To repeat - 90% of sexual abuse will be committed by someone who is not on the Registry and by someone you already know. Obviously, the re-offense rate is very low and most sex offenders have not raped anyone to begin with. These companies are just out to make money by exploiting your fears and scrubbing the facts. No, these seek-and-destroy services are not free and you may be violating state laws by pulling up data that normally requires your (digital) signature.

The information you collect from these websites will be of little or no use to anyone looking to protect their children. People who ran over kids while driving drunk or who committed manslaughter or sold drugs at the school yard are not listed on any Registry and could be living in your neighborhood right next door to a sex offender whose only crime was mooning someone years ago. However, the mooner is the only offender you’d be informed about out of the four. Feel safer now? I didn’t think so.

Granted, there are a few sex offenders you should genuinely fear. These type of offenders are a small minority of all registered (Tier levels are not a true indicator of risk since the basis for tier level assessment is often manipulated by crooked politicians). Chances are you already know about high-risk offenders through law enforcement notification policies. But again, 90%+ of new sexual abuse will be committed by someone who is not on the Registry! So these services are really a waste of your time and money. Preventive treatment is the best weapon against sexual abuse, not these ex-post-facto revenge trips.

Here is the URL to one of these witch-finder services . Tell them what you think about their fear-mongering scam and maybe you will help outlaw these websites that promote misguided vigilantism. I thank you in advance.

Also, a friend of mine informed me about this cheesy website that promises to do a full scale witch hunt on all criminals (not just SO’s), even those who’ve never been arrested! Here is the link - www.criminalsearches.com . So if you’ve ever had a run-in with the law, even decades ago, your name and other data may be publicly listed here. E-mail the owner and voice your opposition to this defamatory service. It should be illegal!

It is time to put out the torches.

  Probably the main deception politicians spew out that boils my blood is when they claim sex offenders who move to more “lenient” states are “hiding out” in them so they’ll have enough time to plan out their next Freddy Krueger attack. Get real! The fact is most former offenders move to escape oppression and not to harm anyone!

The broad-reaching Adam Walsh Act and accompanying Senate Bills passed in certain states make it impossible for a sex offender to get on with his/her life. No work, no home, no passing by a park/school/arcade, and having their names black-listed on a web registry on top of it would encourage anyone to move, not only to protect themselves but to protect their families.

These corrupt politicians and journalists often point out the worst-case-scenario to “prove” their point. However, those cases where a violent predator moves to another state for the sole purpose of raping someone is very rare. The majority of RSO’s just want their lives restored, without having to live in fear that some weirdo from the Perverted Justic cult will set their homes on fire!

Idiots like Dina Titus (D-Nevada) who promote these draconian sex offender laws are nothing but career-minded demagogues who prey on your fears to promote these unfounded ideas…and to promote their jobs.

So the next time you hear a politician blabber on about creating even more tough sex offender laws to prevent “dangerous” people from hiding out in your state, consider the fact most RSO’s have never committed rape and statistically are a lot more safe than drug abusers living in your community. Plus, consider how these counter-productive laws not only impact the offenders but also their families.

Escaping oppression is not “hiding out”, especially when the former offender is doing it legally. There is a reason why the Adam Walsh Act has been frozen in Nevada, it is unconstitutional.

I sincerely hope that politicians like Orrin Hatch will be exposed for their fraudulent sex offender gibberish so the public will finally know the truth. These politicians care little or nothing about your families’ well being, only about votes.

Just remember what Jews in WWII Germany went through with their government. If one of them left Germany to gain back his freedom, would he be “hiding out”, or would he be escaping oppression? Sleep on that one people.

A number of former sex offenders are now filing suit against Nevada for implementing a skewed Tier system based on the broad-reaching Adam Walsh Act which passed without proper review last year. Here is a scan of the Reno Gazette Journal article .

This article only profiles one of the offenders who committed rape, but they neglected to state that most sex offenders have never committed rape, like in a case of public urination. Apparently this biased newspaper is only interested in finding the worst case scenario to sneak in their opposition to reforming corrupt sex offender laws and fooling the reader into believing all former offenders are rapists. WRONG! Again, most sex offenders have never raped before and some are even young children who played doctor. Whenever you read these types of articles, always consider the source. The Reno Gazette Journal is largely a right-wing newspaper who enjoy spreading hysteria to gain more subscribers, just like a number of other “news” papers do.

Anyway, I wish these former offenders much success in their lawsuit. Just imagine a person being listed as “Tier 3″ for mooning someone decades ago. Yes folks, the laws are that bad.

It appears that Mark Lunsford, the father of late Jessica Lunsford, has been caught with child pornography on his home computer.

Here is the article :

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State attorney says computer records don’t warrant charges
By Dave Pieklik
According to documents released Monday afternoon, investigators say they discovered child pornography on Mark Lunsford’s home computer. Lunsford, the father of 9-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was killed in February, denies looking at the images, while the sheriff’s office says none of the images had been “downloaded, filed or saved.” The 852 pages made public by the State Attorney’s office in Brooksville contained transcripts of interviews with accused killer John Couey’s housemates Dorothy Dixon, Matthew Dittrich and Madie Secord and also information about the hundreds of leads investigators checked out during the opening days of Jessica Lunsford’s disappearance. Prosecutors continue to prepare for their capital murder case against Couey, who they say admitted to kidnapping and murdering the 9-year-old Homosassa girl. He has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Contained in the documents released by the State Attorney’s office were notes from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement that mention the pornography. The images, documents say, were found Feb. 24 — the day Jessica was reported missing from her South Sonata Avenue home — by Citrus County sheriff’s detectives during their investigation of the missing girl.

Though the documents did not go into specifics about the images, Assistant State Attorney Pete Magrino said the images were found on Lunsford’s computer. However, he said his office is not pursuing charges.

“There was no evidence found by law enforcement that the computer was used in the manufacturing or production of child pornography, only that there were a limited number of items that were viewed,” Magrino said. “To expend additional law enforcement resources and prosecutor resources to make a case, when balancing societal goals. I mean, Mr. Lunsford’s been through enough.”

Along with the images, a list of more than 50 “sexually oriented” Web sites that Lunsford visited on the morning before Jessica disappeared was released by prosecutors last month. Talking in his office Monday, Magrino declined to give an exact number of images that investigators found, but said it was in the “single digits.”

He said while Lunsford said he viewed pornographic images, the questionable images could have gotten on the computer any number of ways, such as through “pop-ups” or by accident.

Sheriff spokeswoman Gail Tierney said a “handful” of images were found by members of the sheriff’s computer forensics unit in the computers delete bin. She said the images had not been downloaded, filed or saved.

Tierney said Sheriff Jeff Dawsy has been “in agreement” with the State Attorney about not pressing charges because the office felt Lunsford has been through enough, and added that any attempt at prosecution “would have been challenging” because the images had not been saved.

Magrino acknowledged there would likely be some public outcry concerning the images and his office’s decision not to prosecute. He theorized the Public Defender’s Office might even use the information to build its case for defending John Couey, the man accused of Jessica’s kidnapping and murder.

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Hmmm. So the state attorney doesn’t plan to file charges against Mark because he’s been “through enough”.The way I see it, since Mark has been campaigning for Jessica’s Law, the over-reaching legislation that impacts many former sex offenders and their families, now wants the law to go easy on him while others who have committed the same non-violent offense must pay a higher price. I don’t think so, Mark. The stench of political corruption is in the Florida air and I’d say you only have two choices:

1. Go to prison and accept the same punishment everyone else had to endure for the same crime.
2. Make a stand and back off your promotion of the misguided Jessica’s Law. Focus on tracking violent predators instead of all the people on sex offender registries who only viewed a few dirty pictures (like you did) or teenagers who had consensual sex with other teenagers (like your son Joshua did). Plus, I also recommend you campaign for the prevention of sexual abuse by encouraging treatment programs for at-risk people (usually not on the registry).

Personally, I vote for number two. Jessica’s Law, and similar legislation, does nothing to keep kids safe and actually places more kids in harm’s way as in the case of late Christopher Michael Barrios . It is time to re-examine these draconian sex offender laws and reform them.

I’ve created a video titled “Sex Offender Hysteria - The Truth” and it’s on YouTube! In this project, I bust several myths about sex offenders and expose the negative impact sex offender registries have had on many families, including children. It is a hard-hitting video, so take some precaution when viewing. I feel it must be hard-hitting to raise awareness about these corrupt laws. The song you hear in the background is “NWO (New World Order)” by Ministry [lyrics], I think it’s message about political corruption and fascism is appropriate. I may create more videos in the future and if so, you’ll be the first to know! Feel free to comment on this video as every comment in support of this cause will help make a difference!

DISCLAIMER : This video was not created by ReformSexOffenderLaws.org and the views expressed are solely those of The Truthseeker Group.

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“Sex Offender Hysteria - The Truth“ Visit RefromSexOffenderLaws Website

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The Nevada Assembly has once again changed the sex offender registration system, forcing most law-abiding offenders that have been registering as a Tier 1 (low-risk) to begin registering as Tier 2 (medium-risk) or even Tier 3 (high-risk) based solely on flawed judgment. This legislation takes effect regardless of the former offenders’ good behavior or even though the crime committed was non-violent! This decision was hastily made and without proper review, like with most Bills of this type.

This is an outrage! These over-reaching laws do not make communities safer, in fact, they make them less safe. Many former sex offenders have families who are also negatively affected by these sweeping laws. Plus, the majority of sex offenders have committed non-violent crimes such as viewing a few indecent images on the Net or urinating in public! These people are hardly the demonic molesters hiding in shadows waiting to strike which people in the corrupted news media, like Nancy Grace , would have us believe. Sure these are crimes, but not major ones, and these low-risk offenders and their families should not be subject to eternal persecution by career-minded politicians and sensationalistic journalists.

The current laws in a number of states overpunish these low-risk people based on little or no facts. Factually, the majority of sex offenders do not re-offend based on a study by the Department of Justice (less than 7%). This is likely because most are not “sexual predators”. Also, 90+% of sexual abuse crimes will be committed by someone who is not on the registry and by someone inside the family or by a trusted friend.

The sex offender web registry should be reserved only for those offenders psychologically evaluated to be a high-risk. Police are overburdened with the SOR and have a difficult time keeping up with all offenders, thus allowing truly dangerous offenders (the minority) a chance to re-offend since more go underground and police have no idea where they are! It is time to reform the SOR in every state, especially Nevada, based on rational judgment instead of hysterical conclusions.

Again, non-violent offenders should be excluded from web databases and certainly not “bumped” up a Tier level for doing absolutely nothing to deserve it! This runaway legislation must be reformed! It is counter-productive, defaming, hysterical, and dangerous! Do you realize that now even children are on the SOR, some as young as 4? Plus, many children of former sex offenders are being harassed and subject to violence thanks to misguided public notification rules. So how does the sex offender registry keep kids safe? It doesn’t. Ripping a child away from his or her father (or mother) simply because he once viewed a few dirty images on the Web or sunbathed in the nude is a huge injustice to everyone involved!

What is the solution? I believe it’s pretty clear, drop all law-abiding sex offenders who have non-violent offenses from the registry while keeping the public aware of truly high-risk offenders. This will make it much easier for law-enforcement to track those who really do pose a threat to public safety since true sexual predators are a much smaller percentage of all registered sex offenders. But also make it a felony for anyone to harass them or their families and offer these offenders effective treatment and rehabilitation until they are no longer considered a high risk, determined by mental health professionals and judges. Violent sex offenders can be rehabilitated given the proper treatment as numerous mental health specialists will tell you and also the apparently low recidivism rate. This is the effective way to prevent sexual abuse.

Families everywhere are devastated by these far-reaching laws that punish the many for the actions of a few. So, if you ever do a website search for local sex offenders living in your Nevada neighborhood, think about who you are judging and research facts before you rush to any conclusions about this person. Most of the listings will be of non-violent offenders who have not re-offended and pose little, if any, risk due to unjustly revised state laws (Ohio passed similar legislation) that will list all offenders next to each other, regardless of how severe the crime committed was and giving very little information about the offenders’ history (it can range from someone who made a prank phone call to someone who raped a child at gunpoint!)

This runaway legislation needs to end and if you oppose this blind decision by the Nevada Assembly, please phone, write or e-mail them as soon as possible . Also, please visit these informative websites for more legitimate sex offender data -

http://www.soclear.org

http://www.sosen.us

http://www.operationawareness.com

http://www.reformsexoffenderlaws.org

http://www.txvoices.com

Thank you for your attention and support!

- Brian Yates

End Government And Media Abuse