Residency restriction remain in place in Rhode Islannd. A 300’ barrier still exist of all offenders

Because the politicians cater to the blood thirstiest, most vengeful sectors of our society. That’s why. 3 words: IT GETS VOTES.

JJJJ, I truly in my “heart of hearts” belive that FEAR is NOT the issue here, but rather blind, unyielding hatred. When someone rapes a woman or even more on point, when someone molests or literally rapes a young child, society’s view is that NOTHING short of a slow, agonizing death serves their idea of justice for the crime. To most of society anything less than a slow, torturous death is justice denied. Those who have these types of offenses are no longer considered members of the human race by a large part of society and in fact, most think we should be stripped of ALL constitutional protections.

My thoughts exactly and that’s what I’m afraid of. The state gets a bad ruling? They just go back and legislate their way around it and the way the court rulings are written, it gives the state the roadmap to follow to make the new law even more impervious to legal challenges.

I am no legal beagle by any stretch, but these residency restrictions have to be fought state by state. That means P.F.R.s in those states have to come together, come up with funding, and find a lawyer who is intimately familiar with the state’s sex offense laws and absolutely knows how to “thread the needle” and craft the correct argument that will gain proper traction with the court. Sadly, there are some attorneys out there who could litigate these cases but won’t either because they agree with the laws are too afraid of the public backlash from those who do. A split among circuits can get SCOTUS attention, but right now with the make-up of the current court, do we really want to risk kicking any case up to SCOTUS now? This court would be the least sympathetic to our cause. We don’t want a bad ruling to either get upheld by the Supreme Court or denied cert. Keep in mind the vitriol Ketanji Brown Jackson received simply because she followed the BIPARTIZAN SENTENCING GUIDELINE REPORT FOR NON-PRODUCTION CHILD PORN CHARGES. Look at the bill Sen. Hauley from MO tried to get passed into law right after her confirmation putting harsh mandatory minimums on child porn consumption.

The current climate in SCOTUS would probably be to do whatever legal gymnastics would be called for to uphold everything about our draconian registry regime. A conservative majority is the worst case scenario for our efforts to reform the laws. I say for now we should let bad rulings in the lower courts stand because if they get kicked up the chain and get upheld, the bad ruling affects more and more people the higher the appeal goes.