0073

  Comment DOJ DOCKET NOTE: PERSONAL IDENTIFYING INFORMATION OF THE COMMENTER REDACTED AT THE COMMENTER’S REQUEST. The SOR has impacted me personally at home and in work. My sentence was in 1993 and slowly over the years more

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0074

  Comment The fact is that the government doesn’t realize that people CAN change and this list is creating moral lepers. Making it hard for people to get jobs and housing, in fact it creates more crime because

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0075

  Comment Studies have shown SORN has not been proven to be an effective deterrent. In fact, it is doing more harm than good. Families are negatively impacted by not being able to live near their work or

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0076

  Comment I have been a registered sex offender since 2004. I was 23 years old when I committed my crime. At that time I struggled with the choice of going to court and facing a greater sentence

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0077

  Comment My name is Jose Torres, I have been placed on the sex offender registry in the state of Michigan without any due process of the law. I was never formally charged nor sentenced in any way

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0079

  Comment I am against this for so many reasons. When I married my husband 20 years ago, I had in mind that the list was only a minimal part of our lives and would eventually be gone.

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0078

  Comment I am the parent of a registrant in Michigan. As you are already aware, studies that have shown that the SOR is not achieving its intent, and in fact is causing more harm than good. Registries

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0080

  Comment I have been on the registry for 5 years. In that time I have had my rules changed multiple times. Because it’s what’s in the best interest of the community to punish me with new and

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0081

  Comment I believe the sex offender registry act is a waste of money the recidivism rate for sex offenders is very low and there’s also put sex offenders in danger of being harmed by people that hate

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0082

  Comment The sex offender registry is supposed to protect children, yet children are more often harmed by ot than helped. Because people on the sex offender registry have children too. A registrant cannot take their children to

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0083

  Comment If you put this much effort into DWI/DUI drivers, drug dealers AND users, gang members, husband/wife beatetrs ect. you could make the streets a much safer place for everyone. Comment ID DOJ-OAG-2020-0003-0083 Tracking Number kel-kovk-n649 Comment

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0084

  Comment The Registry fails to protect those it is intended to protect, not because it is implemented improperly, but because it would fail to protect the public even if the policy was followed to a T by

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0085

  Comment It is time to correct the misery and ongoing punishment of offendors caused by public shaming using the SORNA facility. The act not only punishesb theperpertrator but causes undue mental and finaciial hardships on families and

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0086

    Comment My name is Jonathan Meyer, and I am a 40-year old man living in West Michigan. In 2012, I was convicted of Criminal Sexual Conduct, for having an inappropriate relationship with a teenage employee of

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0087

  Comment The sex offender registry does not work. It does do what it was intended to do and does more harm than good. Recidivisim rates among those required to register statistically among numerous studies is well below

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0088

  Comment I believe that changing the rules and applying them retroactively is not only wrong but unconstitutional. I believe the tier system is broadly applied with no risk assessment what so ever, also being applied retroactively. I

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0089

  Comment SORNA needs individual risk assessment and a path to be removed early as a reward for good behavior. Also, time on the registry should be reduced for all tiers. Recidivism rates for sex crimes are about

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0090

  Comment SORNA requirements should serve as a ceiling and not a floor. For the same offense, someone can be subjected to lifetime punishment and ostracism in one state and be free from punishment in 15 years in

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0091

  Comment I was 13 years old when I “offended”. I won’t ever be able to apologize enough, and the other person and I have a very close bond because I wasn’t a predator. I was a kid

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0092

  Comment I do not think that lifetime registry is necessary for anyone. It is not fair to make people who got in trouble in 1984 or 1985 and did time in prison, then got out and completed

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