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preemptiveprevention 
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2006,7:56 pm |
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Would anyone be willing to help get signatures on a petition asking the state to either:
1. ban sex offenders (especially when the victim is age 0-13) from living within so many feet of a school/daycare.
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2. Change the way the public is notified about sex offenders.
(For example I think every parent that has a child going to Hawthorne had the right to be told 2 sex offenders whose victims ages were 0-13 were living one and a half blocks way from the school)
or both?
What are peoples thoughts on this?
I am looking for positive or negative feedback on this.
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Preemptive-Having power to prevent from happening or taking place.
Prevention-The act to keep from happening or existing.
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2006,8:04 pm |
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Yes and your welcome to put a copy at Eddies and the Web Room.
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2006,9:23 pm |
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| Quote | | If I understand the law that you site, this could be a 16 year old and and 15 year old doing what many of us might have done when we were in high school. How much time and resources should we spend tracking that person for 10 years when the chance the re-offend is very, very small? In a world with unlimited funds maybe it would make sense, but there are better ways to keep our kids safe with the resources we have. |
I appreciate your good sense RepDan. I agree that Iowa's system isn't the way to go. This scenerio came to mind when I started reading this thread. I remember hearing a story of someone's son who was 17 or 18 and his girlfriend was 15 or 16. The girl ended up pregnant (via consensual sex) and her parents who didn't like the boy pressed statutory rape charges. The boy was convicted of the charge and had to register as a sex offender. He had a difficult time finding a job or a landlord who'd rent to him. Of course people treated him as a filthy child molester and his life was pretty much a living hell. All for as you said "doing what many of us might have done when we were in high school."
So like the alley pissers (in some states), some on the level 1 offender list shouldn't be on there or atleast not thrown in with the level 2's and 3's and reported publicly.
With that said I have to play devil's advocate here because I have to wonder how many henious sex acts to children have been plead down to level 1 charges or less by county attorneys who are trying to save money. We might be amazed and sickened at the same time. Hmmm?? Maybe that's why Minnesota's rate is so low in comparison to other states.?? Just my thoughts!
I don't know that it would comfort me to know that a sex offender lived 2005 ft. from the elementary school or daycare my child attended than it would if they lived 1095 ft. away. They can still move in next door to where I live in a neighborhood with lots of children. IMO if these sex offenders are going to re-offend, they'll find children regardless of how close they live to an elementary school.
| Quote | | I talked to the person who is in charge of Iowas site today. Since the law passed that prohibits the 2000 feet, the number of people who have stopped reported has doubled! |
RepDan;
I don't get what this means! The number of what people, stopped doing what?
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2006,9:34 pm |
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| Quote (preemptiveprevention @ Jan. 27 2006,7:56pm) | Would anyone be willing to help get signatures on a petition asking the state to either:
1. ban sex offenders (especially when the victim is age 0-13) from living within so many feet of a school/daycare.
or
2. Change the way the public is notified about sex offenders.
(For example I think every parent that has a child going to Hawthorne had the right to be told 2 sex offenders whose victims ages were 0-13 were living one and a half blocks way from the school)
or both?
What are peoples thoughts on this?
I am looking for positive or negative feedback on this. |
Are you sure that's what you want to do? I don't want the 2 and 3 from MPLS and St Paul moving into greater minnesota. I am told the push in Iowa came from the larger cities because they had too many of them.
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repdan
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Posted on: Jan. 27 2006,9:37 pm |
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Opps, my bad, the number of people who have stopped reporting where they live has doubled, since the restriction is so tight, it forces them into the rural areas or they just stop reporting. So you don't know where they are.
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Jan. 28 2006,4:36 am |
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From what I have read in your post, Dan you are more concerned to protect the state of MN from law suite than protect our children. Take it to legislation be a leader.
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REPOMAN
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Posted on: Jan. 28 2006,8:04 am |
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| Quote (GEOKOFF @ Jan. 28 2006,4:36am) | | From what I have read in your post, Dan you are more concerned to protect the state of MN from law suite than protect our children. Take it to legislation be a leader. |
Are you really that stupid, Geokoff...
he doesn't want them to leave large metro areas or stop reporting because it is hard to live somewhere in a populated area that is not within 2000 feet of a school... 
and he just wants to clean up the reporting end of it to insure that the poor bastard that is busted at the age of 19 for having relations with his 15/16 yr old girlfriend isn't lumped in with the 39 year old that molested a 12 year old...
is that so hard to understand... 
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Jan. 28 2006,10:50 am |
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Are you so stupid that you don't see his him hawing on the issue there must be great minds put together on this one in order to make the populous happy and not the opinion of one representative to let the issue die, Mr I didn't call you Terrorist,
You admittedly terrorized the offender that's the answer, right. Be a man tell us who you are or shut the hell up.
According to the family watchdog website most of the offenders live in downtown ares of the twin cities. What we want stopped is the alure to Mn from Iowa offfenders.
Edited by GEOKARJO on Jan. 28 2006,11:16 am
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GEOKARJO
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Posted on: Jan. 28 2006,11:20 am |
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| Quote | How much time and resources should we spend tracking that person for 10 years when the chance the re-offend is very, very small? In a world with unlimited funds maybe it would make sense, but there are better ways to keep our kids safe with the resources we have.
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The same amount of resource it takes to slap a DUI plate on the back of a car possibly?
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