Sex Offenders: Being Brought to Tiers
In 1995, David was at the park with his friends playing basketball. He was just a regular 17-year-old boy in high school trying to endure through the stresses that come with that age. He was an average student and had high hopes for college and the future. As the day was going on, David realized he needed to go to the bathroom. Seeing the bathroom was on the other side of the park, and seeing nobody nearby but his friends, he decided he would just run over to the tree line next to the court so he could hurry back and finish the game. As David was finishing up his business, however, he heard the foreign sound of a police siren. To David’s dismay, only a few days later, he found himself charged with public indecency. The police officer said because it was a public park and there were children at the park, even though they were nowhere near where the basketball game was going on, it was a very serious crime. Because of this charge, David was required to register as a sex offender and had to make his name and personal information available to the public for the next
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This requires some people to leave their home and families and move away to live alone outside of cities and towns (Chang). No wonder in the minds of so many people sex offenders all live in creepy houses just outside of town. In many cases, it is the only place they can live. Sadly, many are not allowed to attend church meetings or school events (Chammah, para.1). This means parents can be denied access to attend their child’s school events, of which sporting events, plays, musicals performances, graduation, and parent teacher conferences are included (New York, para. 10). The laws associated with this registry are borderline unconstitutional. Sadly, these same laws apply to all registered sex offenders and not just Tier II and Tier