Waiting for the Second Age of Reason when sex offense laws will make sense.
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12 Mar 2022
Today is a good day for a thread (a baker's dozen!) about why we need to ask to #abolishtheregistry. 1/
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22 Jun 2023
True in Nebraska. We don't need another prison, we need to repeal some of those "extra" laws the Unicameral likes to pass so that prosecutors have plenty of chances to stack charges upon charges. More is not better. As for sentences, longer is not better. #neleg @jim_pillen
22 Jun 2023
We are not “running out of prison places.” We are just sending too many people to prison who do not need to be there.
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18 Jun 2023
This is what can happen inside prison where there is little transparency. Another enabling factor is the fear of and disgust for people convicted of sex crimes that is generated by the #SORegistry.
#abolishtheregistry
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23 Apr 2023
Came across this surprising paragraph in @JeffKorzenik's Untapped Talent. @JohnFPfaff, is this an accurate restatement of what you have said? Seems more likely that technical violations could reflect the *suspicion* of criminal activity that can't be proven. 1/2
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23 Apr 2023
The idea that people incarcerated for technical violations are "generally deserving..." doesn't sound like you. Perhaps I'm wrong. 2/2
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27 Mar 2023
I'm watching The Clapper (Ed Helms, Amanda Seyfried) and thinking it's a great illustration of how cops work and why "dont talk to cops" is the best advice. With this movie, I have the same kind of anxiety I felt watching the Richard Jewell movie when Richard talks to the cops.
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8 Feb 2023
What kind of legislation would it take to end qualified immunity? Is there no one trying to do this? It would need to be at the federal level, correct?
7 Feb 2023
Something that deserves far more attention is that the police murders of George Floyd and Tyre Nichols (and many others) took place in front of multiple fellow officers who did nothing to protect the victim. This is like a flight crew doing nothing about a plainly drunk pilot. /1
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18 Jan 2023
Congress assumes that the polygraph is bad for the good people but good to catch the bad folks. That's crazy thinking. If it is bad for some, it is bad for all. The govt desire to catch someone at a lie is just another carceral impulse.
18 Jan 2023
Come on, man!
Because they're wildly inaccurate, Congress created a law that makes it illegal to use the polygraph in the hiring process (the EPPA in 1988). Then they create another law that mandates using it? It's a national disgrace.
#StopPolygraphAbuse
#EPPAforALL
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10 Jan 2023
"What is really taking place is not an effective fight against sex tourism but instead the globalization of discrimination against a despised class of human beings." #InternationalMegansLaw
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24 Dec 2022
Reentry is all kinds of hard:
When my husband came home from prison, friends texted me to "come sit with us at the football game tonight." A simple thing that made it so much easier for us to walk into that high school stadium for the game. 1/
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24 Dec 2022
I'll never know how much gossip there was because friends did not burden me with that. 3/
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24 Dec 2022
It has been several years since that football game and i still get teary thinking about that simple kindness, "come sit with us." 4/4
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27 Nov 2022
This is what the #SORegistry does: it creates circumstances that can be used to make life more difficult. The community--told to fear registrants--is *encouraged* to use SOR status against people. #abolishtheregistry
26 Nov 2022
WTF!?!?!?!This is just asinine..... Please explain to me how this man is a threat to anyone at this point. Let him be with his family for God's sake. #AbolishTheRegistry @ShenandoahTx @WomenAgainstReg @RegistryMatters @WARofflorida @NationalRSOL @handbasketnotes @Ohiorsol
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12 Nov 2022
A teacher ought to know how to tell a fourth-grader how to hug politely.
11 Nov 2022
A 10 year old LITTLE BOY is possibly facing 6 months in jail for a misdemeanour battery charge because he HUGGED his teacher. The teacher claims he grabbed her inappropriately. 130 students a YEAR are arrested between the ages of 5-9 at SCHOOL. This is highly disturbing.
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8 Nov 2022
Is Aimee Melton aware that a large number of Omaha residents are prohibited from voting? Is she really saying that they have no right to complain about the system that disenfranchised them?
8 Nov 2022
If you haven’t gotten enough civic participation today from voting, Omaha City Council is meeting now.
“If you don’t vote, I dont want to hear any complaints,” CM Aimee Melton said. Polls are open until 8 pm.
7 Nov 2022
I agree.
7 Nov 2022
If we are to survive as a constitutional republic, citizens must stop rewarding those whose primary means of winning elections are destroying the reputations and lives of those with whom they disagree. 1/2
3 Nov 2022
C'mon, @JD_Tuccille. The #SORegistry is terrible idea no matter who is on it. You can do better than "well, TECHnically, this one guy doesn't belong there." Nobody belongs there. #abolishtheregistry 1/
3 Nov 2022
Wrong argument here: Conviction Registries are wrong because they make us all less safe & trample civil liberties, not just because the guy didn’t commit a certain type of crime. Why Is Texas Requiring a Guy Who Stole a Car To Register as a Sex Offender? - goo.gl/alerts/C7xWgm
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3 Nov 2022
The SORegistry makes it possible for Legislators to pass laws that put anyone on the list. Once there is a list, legislators will continue to add people to it. Almost inevitably, states do what Texas did. 2/
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3 Nov 2022
That is why #abolishtheregistry is the only answer. Listing anyone, for any crime, *in order to make their life more difficult* does nothing to make our community safe. 3/3
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