Facebook The New Sex Offender Registry

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It has started in Louisiana and hopefully will reach the rest of the world. Sex offenders in an Louisiana counties who are using social networks of any kind will have to declare their sex offender status.

Signed into law back in May and effective on August 1st, Thompson’s law will require all registered sex offenders in the state to make that fact about themselves known on all social media sites – whether it be Facebook, Twitter, blog, gaming forum, etc.

Personally I think and wish law enforcement would make this law everywhere and that all social media websites would conform.

What do you all think?

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It has started in Louisiana and hopefully will reach the rest of the world. Sex offenders in an Louisiana counties who are using social networks of any kind will have to declare their sex offender status.



Personally I think and wish law enforcement would make this law everywhere and that all social media websites would conform.

What do you all think?

First the US should fix the sex offender list. They've got people on there for stuff that should not be in there. And this is not fair to those people.

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First the US should fix the sex offender list. They've got people on there for stuff that should not be in there. And this is not fair to those people.

I think you're right and this is true. Better safe than sorry?

Actually from what I remember there are some really strange sex laws in some parts of the States. I'm not sure if any of these laws actually exist but I've heard there are some really strange ones and so someone convicted of having an orgasm before their partner get's a notification on Facebook of their status?

Are any of these true? http://digitaljournal.com/article/253517

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ONE day in 1996 the lights went off in a classroom in Georgia so that the students could watch a video. Wendy Whitaker, a 17-year-old pupil at the time, was sitting near the back. The boy next to her suggested that, since it was dark, she could perform oral sex on him without anyone noticing. She obliged. And that single teenage fumble wrecked her life.

Her classmate was three weeks shy of his 16th birthday. That made Ms Whitaker a criminal. She was arrested and charged with sodomy, which in Georgia can refer to oral sex. She met her court-appointed lawyer five minutes before the hearing. He told her to plead guilty. She did not really understand what was going on, so she did as she was told.

She was sentenced to five years on probation. Not being the most organised of people, she failed to meet all the conditions, such as checking in regularly with her probation officer. For a series of technical violations, she was incarcerated for more than a year, in the county jail, the state women’s prison and a boot camp. “I was in there with people who killed people. It’s crazy,” she says.

She finished her probation in 2002. But her ordeal continues. Georgia puts sex offenders on a public registry. Ms Whitaker’s name, photograph and address are easily accessible online, along with the information that she was convicted of “sodomy”.

http://www.economist.com/node/14164614

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That's actually highly irritating...poor girl...