The message is clear: no matter what we do, there will always be someone willing enough to clutch their pearls and rob you of something you deserve if you have a sex offense in your past.

Sandy’s right. I think the US is still the greatest nation ever. Our constitution gives us liberties like no other nation. Unfortunately, the lawmakers got it wrong with the sor. Just like everything else, sooner or later a good constitutional lawyer will get this whole mess tossed as the sor is so far from constitutional its almost laughable except I’m on it and it sucks!
About me, On the registry, had to move out of the house i own because my property is 60 ft to close to a vacant lot that the school owns, estranged from my wife for 3 yrs. now can’t afford a new house, have to renew my cdl every year now instead of every four like everyone else (it’s like registering twice). I can’t even get a ham radio tech license let alone my foid card back. All of that due to a few pics i downloaded. I know what I did and feel I have paid my debt in full. I can only hope and pray I live long enough to see the change when it happens.

I guess it can’t suck too badly or people from all over the world would not often be risking, literally, life and limb to get here.

Yes Mom, and it’s tech money doing it. There has been a huge push into tech and database driven surveillance initiatives.
There is real time surveillance via multi spectrum cameras and there is the database(s) on which the gathered intelligence is stored for other purposes. The people invited big brother in the day to day, and now all the people suffer it. While the people are focused of the sex offender, the electronic surveillance state and firms which get them elected thrive by exploitation of fear for profits. America acts China. More than a half million registered persons are on the databases without formal legal processing to the effect. That is a reality of any electronic stored list, public or private. The &blacklist” has been enabled and the people are using them to full effect. SOR cemented much of it into our culture. Even churches are getting in the game.

Order one of those prefabricated custom rubber stamps that reads “EX-” Then stamp it in front of each instance of the word “SO”

I live in Tennessee. Well the police showed today to my job as well as spoke to my employer who knows I am on the registry, I was fired because someone else made a false statement . I committed my Sex Offense in 2009. Was sentenced to 6 years for incest. I am still paying for it today in 2024. I am not allowed to go near my children to be a father due to a law that we as SO’s cannot be around children alone and if the victim was 12 then we can’t live with our own child. Well point being is that these draconian laws are not doing anything but making it harder for families and people to keep jobs.