(These residency restrictions are worthless when it comes to enhancing public safety.) Many registries have location requirements that forbid registrants from living, or sometimes working, near any place kids might congregate: a school, a daycare, or a park. But when he gave his probation officer his office address, he was told it was too close to a school. That meant his cousins could no longer visit.Īt last, Henry found a good job. 'Probation authorities stipulated that Henry had to post signs on each entrance of her house that read, 'no persons under seventeen allowed on this property,'' writes Horowitz. The neighbors got up in arms, so all three of them moved to Henry's grandmother's house. Being on the registry made it nearly impossible to find work, however.Īfter three years with little income-and several hundred dollars a year in payments for court-mandated polygraph tests-Henry moved back in with his parents. He was immediately expelled but appealed and was allowed to graduate.

If you believe that our country's sex offense registries should actually make kids safer, this book will leave you shaking with frustration.Īt the time of his arrest, Henry was attending community college. Henry's story is one of about 60 that appear in a new book by sociologist Emily Horowitz: From Rage to Reason: Why We Need Sex Crime Laws Based on Facts Not Fear.

He took a plea: no jail time, and seven years on the sex offense registry. The 16-year-old's parents found out, summoned the cops, and Henry was charged with a sex offense. When Henry was 18, he had sex with a 16-year-old he met on a dating app who said they were 18 too.

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