Guidelines for Using the Nebraska State Patrol Sex-Offender Website

Sensible guidelines to keep in mind when using the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website:
1. The majority of the people on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website are not dangerous. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website is not based on any scientific risk of reoffense.
2. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website includes many people who were evaluated and deemed to be of low risk to reoffend, and thus were not on the website prior to Jan. 1, 2010. Some of those people are now on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website for life even though their offenses were committed years ago and they long ago completed their sentences.
3. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website includes some people who have been evaluated and deemed to be at high risk to reoffend, but you cannot tell who those people are. Under Nebraska law, some of them are on the registry for only 10 years because Nebraska no longer pays any attention to risk of reoffense.
4. The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website prior to Jan. 1, 2010, included only individuals who were at high risk to reoffend. Since Jan. 1, 2010, the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website has included people who are not dangerous as well as people who are innocent of what they were accused of doing. These are individuals who accepted plea agreements rather than deal with our society’s “guilty until proven innocent” attitude toward sexual offenses. By listing them on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website, the state violated their plea agreements and legal action is being pursued to hold the state accountable.
5. The Nebraska Legislature’s finding from the 1990s that all sex offenders are dangerous was not based on any scientific, empirical evidence. It was a politically-motivated “made up” finding that was based on popular myth. There is a vast and growing body of evidence that the reverse is actually true – that sex offenders are among the least likely to reoffend. The Legislative Finding is made up in the same way that the oft-repeated “50,000 online predators” number was made up. This narrative shows how this round, easy-to-remember number (which is just a lie) was fabricated by the network that brought you “To Catch a Predator.”
6. Evidence shows that a stable home life, employment and reintegration into their communities are among factors that reduce the likelihood of reoffense. This means that the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website makes Nebraska more dangerous because it causes people to lose their jobs and their homes, and it causes their families to suffer. The latest Public Safety Brief from the Council of State Governments states that the vast majority of child molestations — well over 90 percent — are first-time offenses committed by someone known to and close to the family.  The Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website does not protect children, it puts children at higher risk because it focuses attention on people who are not going to molest a child. The U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics has found that just 14 percent of all sexual assault cases reported to law enforcement agencies involved offenders who were strangers to their victims. Sexual assault victims under the age of 18 at the time of the crime knew their abusers in nine out of 10 cases: the abusers were family members in 34 percent of cases, and acquaintances in another 59 percent of cases.
7. The above point also means that if you find that you have a neighbor listed on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website, and your neighbor lives with her or his family, holds a job and leads a productive life, that person probably is no more dangerous than you yourself are. Under no circumstances should you buy into typical popular news media stories about sex offenders. News media and law enforcement work together to scare you. The tactic backfired in 2010 in Lincoln, Neb., when law enforcement invited news media to tag along while they went around to bust sex offenders. A 22-year-old mom who stayed for the weekend at a childcare provider’s home with her young toddler was cuffed in front of the child and hauled off to jail. This is how the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry website protects children? By ripping young moms away from their children for technical violations? The example also typifies news media gullibility. They excitedly report it when a “registered sex offender” reoffends. The fact is, that’s news because it is so rare. Neither law enforcement nor news media will report on the vast majority of registrants who never reoffend but continue paying the state-imposed penalty of public shame.
Guideline Number Eight: Never forget the consequences of other laws that publicy labeled people dangerous.
8. Never forget the consequences of other laws that publicly labeled people as dangerous. Nebraska's Sex Offender Registry website has harmed many children.

4 comments:

  1. #4 states that legal action is being pursued to hold the state accountable for "double jeopardy". If this is true, what is the status of that lawsuit?

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    1. The first lawsuit was filed in federal court, which probably was a terrible mistake in judgment on the part of the attorney handling the case. Nonetheless, all of Nebraska's attempts to criminalize use of the internet by registered citizens were declared unlawful. Judge Richard Kopf found that the intent of the Legislature was to punish. With that in mind, the door is open continued legal challenges to Nebraska's law on sex offenders. In addition, we know that the Douglas County sheriff and others are breaking the law by refusing to provide registered citizens with documentation of their verification visits. That will be the basis of continued challenges. Every registered citizen in Douglas County and the other counties where the sheriff is breaking the law have grounds to file pro se actions.

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    2. So there are no lawsuits pending?

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  2. A sex offender short of a gas chamber is in a time parallel with a Jew in 1930's Germany/BEHOLD>>>> the documentation that proves it/ www.evillaw.tk

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