Did Ali vote on this at the may meeting.

Here’s a suggestion, why not draw up a petition type letter from registrants and their families to sign and present to the ALI being that “WE” are the ones directly affected by these oppressing registration laws. Who better to represent a “group” than the “body” themselves. We surly out number the AG’s, NADA, and NCMEC combined.

It is not a justice system, but a legal system. Justice is subjective, which has for the most part been removed by legislatures nationally or below, but legal is set in laws which have been passed to ensure what those in elected power think is best, not the person on the bench thinks when given the facts presented.

@E Debbs,
I posited that very question to a Canadian expert on the history of slavery. His response surprised me. Basically he said it was an irrelevant question because either way ( definition) it acts as human labor as the means of production. The database then is the newest means of production by its application as proprietary property. For another example consider those who use tech firm (YouTube’s, et. al.) platform to post content. They do so by their own volition, but in doing so use another’s property to engage in labor and market, which very closely resembles share cropping. FB (Now meta) more often than not grew to enormous size with free labor input from user’s posting by their own choice. And how did that firm repay the imputers, by exploitation. And should same user complain about this exploitation they get dumped or banned from the property. Which happened recently with go fund me, when they bailed on the effort to defend truckers protest from highly likely fines and court costs for offenses of civil obedience. It is who controls the property that counts.

I have a concern though. I think there is a bigger problem than even the registry (rather private or public). Its public opinion and fear of people convicted of sex offences. A person’s reputation, even a juvinial’s reputation (that might not be put on the registry after conviction) can be ruined even before they are even charged with a sex crime. The person can be put in the news and even a juvinial who is supposed to be protected from others knowing can have there reputation ruined if the victim tells other people what he or she believes happened. In those situations putting the person on a private registry isn’t going to help because the opinion of other people is already out in the public. If the public understood this fear that they have for people who commited sex offenses was irrational, things would change in my opinion.

I don’t know the answer to this problem and its likely one of those things that are unlikely to change.

Maybe they are trying to bring back indentured servitude, as opposed to outright slavery. Where as one has no hope of freedom and the other knows that after a certain amount of years they are free. Since they see a gradual step off to the registry as opposed to the massive freedom of the slaves of the “price club” incarnation as the best outcome ALI believes has the best chance to bring about the end of junk science of a court verdict.