Comment
Please refer to the following recommendations from the actual experts and established through actual research:
Based upon current knowledge and research, ATSA offers the following
recommendations for evidence-based registration reforms:
• Discontinue one-size-fits all approaches for the registration and notification
of individuals convicted of sexual crimes;
• Individualize registration and notification requirements based upon
empirically validated risk assessment tools and similar methods;
• Develop avenues and criteria for relief from registration which incorporates
the desistance literature and recognizes the importance of treatment and
supervision interventions for reducing recidivism risk, facilitating desistance
and strengthening protective factors;
• Limit public community notification practices to the highest risk registrants,
decrease broad-based dissemination of registrant information and/or reestablish law enforcement only registration practices coupled with allowing
public inquiry about specific individuals;
• Remove adjunct policies, such as residence restrictions, from SORN laws as
they do not work and are one of the primary drivers for legal challenges.
Adjunct policies also undermine protective factors and create unnecessary
barriers for community reintegration;
• Recognize that a national one-size-fits all approach to SORN laws does not
work within the U.S. and allow states to make adjustments to their registries
based on individual needs without incurring any financial penalty;
• Utilize registration as part of a larger management scheme for adults
convicted of sexual crimes, with greater collaboration and focus on
rehabilitative and reintegration efforts;
• Enhance SORN information for law enforcement purposes, including steps to
ensure the accuracy of the information and strengthening tracking of
registrants moving between jurisdictions; and
• Strengthen partnerships between law enforcement and sexual offense specific
management professionals, including treatment professionals
If you implement some of those recommendations, you will an offender who will integrate to, and become a more productive member of the society and the chances for re-offending will dramatically drop which is the goal of any agency seeking to have a better outcome based on their policies.