Tennessee Sex Offender Registry Gets Tougher, Requires Emails & User IDs

In 1985 was only 20. I met a girl at a party and we ended up in my car fooling around. No sex, but close. It turns out she was underage, I did not know that at the time. I got in trouble and spent 6 months in the HOC. Ten years later I was married with two children. I got a letter from the NH DMV calling me a sex offender/predator. I was forced onto the registration system. One year later with issues caused by this I ended up divorced, broke, living in my car for the most part. I rebuilt my life over the years. In 07 I was put onto the public web page as an offender against children. More than twenty years later. Now most of my nighbors cosider me the St. pedophile. I have lost jobs affecting my daughters college money. She is also takes crap at school. One neighbor moved because he said I drop property values. Me, a person! The list goes on. I hope that all you miss informed people out there that have bought into the fear factor put on us by lawmakers feel better knowing you are protected from me. I hope you think the money being spent on tracking people like me is being well spent. I hope you are happy and feel better knowing my life and families lives are in ruins in the name of protecting you. To the person above that says kill them all. Be carefull it is very easy to become a sex offender. If it happens to you or a family member of yours will you pull the trigger or do you want someone else to take care of it for you. Get educated You------!

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Alot of people are against these laws then help stop them please go to this site reformesexoffenderlaws.org

This is such a waste of time and taxpayer dollars for a punishment that never ends. Are there no Christians out there who believe in forgiving? What do you think Jesus would have done had someone committed a crime like this and paid the price and repented? This is all about political moves, not about protecting children. The biggest perverts that we have in our state are the very "Political" leaders that pass these laws to look better themselves. The recent study by the TBI (on the website) shows that sex offenders reoffend at a VERY low rate, about 4% over a two year study. Other people breaking the law reoffend at a rate of 42% over the same period! TBI has even published this on the website but none of the so called "news outlets" is this town have bothered to report on THAT. Instead they, along with corrupt and ignorant public officials spend money to impliment laws that don't work and DESTROY lives. Some sex offenders are indeed dangerous. But the VAST majority are not. There are over 4500 people in the state being tortured every year with these laws and it doesn't do one thing to keep a child safer. Sure, have a sex offender registery for someone that is violent or that has molested children. But limit the time to 5 years, and make it for REAL offenses, NOT things like looking at pictures, movies, cruising a park for another adult, or entrapping someone. If we locked up every male in Chattanooga that has done those things we'd reduced the population of city by thousands! Punishment ends for most crimes. You can kill someone and there is no registery for that. You can sell drugs and there is no registery for that. You can be a violent criminal and there is no registery for that. How fair are we really being??? Jesus would have never tortured people the way we do in this country. Once you have paid the price for your crime, it should be behind you. Forgivness has to come at some point. Wake up channel 12!! Report on the reoffense rate on the TBI website instead of dwelling on the sensational.

I'M JUST GLAD THEY ARE GETTING TOUGHER... WE STILL HAVE A LONG WAY TO GO, BUT ITS A START.... TENNESSEE IS STILL ONE OF THE MOST RELAXED STATES ON CHILD PREDATORS. I SAY KILL THEM ALL!!!! END THE CYCLE.

It's not the registered sex offender who do the trolling, it's all first timers. Those registered already know the penalties, it's the new ones who take the risks and get caught!
Requiring emails:registered offenders, barn door::horse.

USDJ stats prove that SO's are the second LEAST LIKELY to reoffend.

And who pushed wrote and is pushing this legislation through?? John McCain! And now we know why.

I agree with the person above. You can go to a coffee shop, book store, sandwich shop or motels and quickly get an email address chat name and do what ever you want. This is useless legislation and a waste of tax dollars. BUt who really cares right? We are talking about sex offenders right? So it is easy to hate a sex offender and make new laws that punish them because we are wholesome and nothing like these perverts so to heck with the Tennessee or United States Constitution right? What other offense could you pass a law that punishes someone 30 years or 50 years after they have finished serving their time? While you are so focused on these strangers your kid\'s teacher, coach, bus driver, scout or brownie leader is out of site with your child.

someone tell me that they are not serious? This is a waste of money, with all of the places to get e-mail addresses what makes lawmakers think these people are going to hand over a REAL address? Even if they do hand over a REAL address what's not to say that they won't get a different one to use for their terrible trolling?????

This is NOT a good solution, rather it will send the sex offenders lurking even deeper into the shadows and make it harder to find them.