“I'm a public defender. Clients prefer jail to registering as sex offenders”
&gt;We must avoid &quot;one-size-fits-all&quot; labels for those convicted of a broad range of offenses.<p>I don&#x27;t know what the author is going on about. At least in my state (WA), sex offenders are registered on a spectrum from I to III (most violent).<p>&gt;Mario was a sex registrant because, as a teenager, he inappropriately touched a fully dressed boy on two occasions.<p>Uh... so her sympathetic example is a serial child molester? Note she does not say how old a &quot;boy&quot; or how old a &quot;teenager&quot; he was -- you can bet that the &quot;boy&quot; was probably under 7 and  Mario was a 19-year-old, otherwise she would have given more details to make him seem more sympathetic (like she did with &quot;fully clothed&quot;).<p>I am more concerned about the victims of our laws regarding petty drug offenses (i.e. small amounts of marijuana) -- those people are true victims.