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GoogleThe annual fee in Greene County is $50 to register and $5 to make a change.
To register means to report in person and provide information.
Sex or violent offenders must register in each county where they live, own real property, work or attend school.
Adults, or juveniles convicted as adults, may be required to register if they have been convicted of: Rape, criminal deviate conduct, child molesting, child exploitation, vicarious sexual gratification including performing sexual conduct in the presence of a minor, child solicitation, child seduction, sexual misconduct with a minor, incest, sexual battery, kidnapping, criminal confinement, possession of child pornography, promoting prostitution, human trafficking or promotion of human trafficking, or sexual trafficking of a minor, or an attempt or conspiracy to commit any of these crimes. There are some conditions and exceptions outlined in the law.
They may also be required to register if they have been convicted of: Murder or voluntary manslaughter.
Some offenders are required to register for the rest of their lives. Others are required to register for 10 years after the date they are released from incarceration or are placed in a community corrections program or are placed on parole or probation.
A registrant must provide the following information: Full name, previous names and aliases, date of birth, sex, race, height, weight, hair color, eye color, scars, marks or tattoos, social security number, driver's license number, vehicle description, plate numbers, all residence addresses, mailing addresses, descriptions of offenses, dates and counties of convictions, sentencing information, employers or school names and addresses, e-mail addresses, instant messaging, chat room and social networking site usernames and any other information required by the registering agency.
At least once a year, or once every 90 days, depending on the nature of the offense and the offender's designation, the sheriff's department must mail a registration form to each offender to verify the offender's address.
Any time an offender changes the location of his/her address, place of employment or study, the offender must report the change within 72 hours after the change.
Offenders designated as sexually violent predators who will be absent from their principal residence for more than 72 hours must inform the registrar where they will be and for how long.
Offenders who live in temporary residences are required to register within 72 hours of their arrival in the county then must report in person every seven days.
An offender whose crime was committed against a child may not reside within 1,000 feet of a school, a youth program center which includes a day care center, or a public park and they may not reside within one mile of the residence of the victim.
A sexually violent predator or offender against children may not work or volunteer or school property, at a youth program center which includes a day care center, or a public park.
Some offenders have restrictions about using social networking Web sites and instant messaging and chat room programs.
For more information, visit the Indiana Sheriffs' Sex and Violent Offender Registry online at http://www.insor.org/insasoweb/ The online registry includes maps showing the home, work or study locations of all registered offenders.
In Greene County, contact Registrar Denise Andrew at the Greene County Sheriff's Department by calling 384-4422.
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Has anyone stopped to consider the factual basis for these laws or their effects?
(1) According to US Department of Justice statistics, only 5% of sex offenders released in 1994 were returned to prison for a new sex crime.
(2) According to the California Attorney General's office, "90% of child victims know their offender, with almost half of the offenders being a family member. Of sexual assaults against people age 12 and up, approximately 80% of the victims know the offender." (Citing "Facts About Sex Offenders," http://www.meganslaw.ca.gov/facts.aspx?l...
(3) States already have registries, and now the federal government is imposing its legislation on a state matter, threatening to remove 10% of federal funds from non-compliant states. This is more about money than public safety.
(4) Do you consider your federal government MORE efficient and responsive to the public interest than the states?
(5) Do you support a national ID card system? There are more than 650,000 people registered as sex offenders today with an annual growth rate of 7%.
(6) Most are not aware of the increasing number of persons considered to be "sex offenders" or the crimes they have committed, including persons who have simply urinated on the side of the road without knowing a minor was present.
(7) The largest group of registered sex offenders are 14-year-olds who will more than likely never commit a new crime.
These laws are a bad idea.
we have to do something about this sexting issue. Kids shouldn't be put on sex offender registration just because they were messing around with their friends on their phones, but for some reason most states consider this to be child pornography. Kids have had their lives ruined by this law and we need to change it.
Nothing incites the fury, anger and emotions of any community like the discovery of a reported child molester. Unfortunately no charge is easier to make against an innocent person and more difficult to disprove. The word of a child, whether mistaken, coached, or the result of a deliberate lie, is all that it takes to ruin lives.
Various independent facts can easily give rise to an innocent person being falsely accused of child sexual abuse. Certain situations and circumstances have cultivated false accusations against the innocent, for example:
• False allegations have been made by spouses, and former spouses in a divorce or custody battle to seek legal leverage and gain the upper hand.
• Teen age children have alleged abuse to get the disciplinarian family member out of the house or out of their lives.
• School age children will often fabricate abuse after observing "Good Touch, Bad Touch" type films at school.
• Children know more about sex than our society is willing to recognize. They are bombarded with sexual overtones through the movies, magazines and advertisements.
• Some children make false allegations simply for attention.
• False Allegations are often made by emotionally disturbed adolescents with a specific agenda to hurt someone.
• Some children make false allegations after hearing about real sexual abuses that have occurred to friends or classmates.
• Sometimes a false allegation is made by a young child who does not understand the gravity and consequences of their words.
• Sometimes false allegations are made due to more complex dynamics such as Parental Alienation Syndrome and or Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy which include brainwashing.
Often questionable remarks by children are misinterpreted by frantic family members and quickly escalate into allegations by over zealous social workers. Once an allegation is made the child savers begin building a case against the accused.
They do not evaluate the factual basis for the allegation or conduct a thourough investigation. Rather, they are convinced the child was abused, you are the abuser, and your fate is sealed.
Due to the elimination of the accused's fundamental constitutional rights, the mentality of the "child savers", and the Child Saving Industry's dependence on victims and perptrators, our prison's are full of innocent persons!
The Recipe For Conviction:
1. "Outcry" from a child, interpreted as abuse;
2. Reporting of the outcry by a person required by law to report any suspicion of child abuse, or someone with a hidden agenda or motive;
3. A biased investigation by employees of the child saving industry child protective service.
4. A biased medical report by a "nurse" contracted by the child saving industry;
5. Syndrome evidence from an "expert" witness;
6. Circumstantial evidence of the accused's opportunity to be alone with the child.
7. Motive or other variables leading to an accusation.
8. Hearsay evidence is admissable and many convictions are based soley upon hearsay alone without any physical evidence whatsoever.
The state does not have to prove guilt, but simply make the accusation. Once the accusation is made, the defendant must prove innocence beyond a reasonable doubt. Failing that, the jury will not take a chance the defendant may be a child molester, and will convict.
How Did We Come to This?
The media, legislature and the "child saving industry" has created a national child molestation hysteria. Through their well funded efforts, the general public is convinced a child molester lurks behind every tree, waiting for the golden opportunity to snatch a child. In addition, not satisfied with just terrifying the public, these forces have created a perception that child abuse is rampantly occurring behind the closed doors of our neighbors and friends.
Many politicians seek and maintain their positions by running campaigns aimed at the voter's emotional desire to protect children. An effective way to follow this campaign promise is to enact laws that eliminate basic rights of criminal defendants charged with any form of child abuse.
Nothing the accused can say or do will convince a child saver to go away. For the self-proclaimed child savers though, no mistakes are ever made. "Of course the accused will deny it. Who among us would admit to being a child molester? Children do not lie. Adults lie. Molesters lie. You are lying." This is the mind-set of those who prosecute often times innocent people.
Child protective services caseworkers and prosecutors believe the case is over once the child makes an outcry of abuse and that outcry is subsequently substantiated during the interview alone. No other evidence is necessary for them to submit the case for formal charges. No physical evidence of abuse. No medical evidence of abuse, nothing.
This is a very serious problem and as such the actual perpetrators are often the participants of the "child saving industry" itself.
I have always been against mandatory registration for sex offenders. The thing is, once you've served your time, you've paid for your crime and should not have to keep paying for it over and over again. A lot of it is bullcrap to begin with, such as a 17 year old having consensual sex with a 15 year old, things like that. If they're on probation after getting out of prison shouldn't it be the probation officer's responsibility to keep up with their client? You can't keep making people pay for the same crime. No, I don't particularly want to live next door to a sex offender, especially if it involves a child, but registration isn't going to necessarily solve that. Maybe my next door neighbor just hasn't been caught yet.
Are you kidding me?? I work with sex offenders AND victims of sex crimes. From being exposed to this for so many years, I have secured my first thoughts that SEX OFFENDERS CANNOT BE REHABILITATED!!!