but this is going a little far. Next they’ll take away your drivers license cause you drove to the meeting place where the act occured, and take away your credit card, cause you used that to pay for the gas for the car…and they’ll take away your phone cause you used that to make the call to arrange the meeting. C’mon.

This will do nothing to try and put these people back into society and upstanding citizens. This is crazy. If anything the offenders would have to have a special router where all information of websites they’ve visited is stored. That may be a bit farfetched. Maybe just blacklist certain websites for the offender, don’t take their life away.

So this will have little to no preventative effect, and just sounds good to the public at large.

And I’m surprised this is legal, I would have thought this would come under double jeopardy, punishing for the same crime over and over again. AFTER sentencing even. Surely this is both illegal and pointless.

And potentially dangerous, the LAST thing we need is to marginalise sex offenders to the extent that they give up on trying to reintegrate into society.

@17 “I think that sex offender registries should be abolished, or at least reorganized.”
Either the system should be revamped OR overhauled. I don’t it’s wise to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

yours is the first post that is intelligent and makes sense that i have ever seen on Rlslog. congratulations.

Haaving amourous feeling towards minors & expressing it can never be tagged as a crime as there is plenty of proof in nature that this is a natural thing like Hetero/Bi/Homosexual orientation. A person having such feeling is as good a citizen as the president himself or the first lady if not better as long as he does not harm any other person (adult or minor)! Having platonic relationship with a partner who is just below the ageof consent, is NOT a crime. But if you admit having it, you’re a sex offender.

I hope that the sensible ppl of NJ will raise their voice against this draconian move.

Another problem that will be brought up sooner than later, I expect, will be the offenders that have not used their computer in violation of the monitoring, yet still get hit with a parole violation. Has anyone reading this ever let someone use their computer, only to find out they had went to some of the sites you don’t even go to?

I know that prison is filled with lots of “they framed me” stories, but this just makes it that much easier to believe that maybe someone is out to get them. What’s to stop a person from entering an offender’s home and accessing a bunch of “adult” sites (or MySpace or Facebook, or whatever) and then the paroled offender get nailed with a parole violation. I know someone who is on “the list” and is very careful where they go and makes sure to follow the law to a “T” so as not to get knocked on a technicality. I also know of quite a few people who have gotten off with no time and no registration after admitting to horrible things, for whatever reason. I think you have to look at each case, not lump all offenders in the same group.

But if that’s the way this country wants to treat these offenders (all the same), then actually treat them all the same. I have picked up my local paper over the last 5 years and see time after time and see parents let off with a slap on the wrist for horrible abuses on their flesh and blood kids, but every case that has come up involving the same situations, but with a step-parent, they local DA wants to bury them under the jail. The really messed up part is my state has on the books a MANDATORY 25 years for incest, which the local DA obviously ignores when choosing these cases to prosecute.

Sorry for the long rant, but I thought it was actually relevant to this post.

STOP INTERNET CENSORSHIP

Title: Sex Offenders banned from Internet —–> in NJ <—–