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So instead that pedo camps out in a nearby park with no support system to keep from re-offending.
I’m glad that there is an exception for those who have certain convictions for sex offenses and are required to comply with the conditions of being on the sex offender registry. >

Your comment made me think:  Is there a time limit on being on that registry, or are you on for life once you’re on?  
I know a person who got put on it because he essentially got tricked by a girl on tinder who lied about her age, her parents found out about her Tinder, and it became a whole issue (if we’re to believe his story, but who knows).  
Assuming his story is true (which, again, not gunna make a claim on that one way or another), that’s pretty much fucking him for life over something that’s not really his fault necessarily.  
I know that’s not the case for the majority of the people on it, but this is just a thought that crossed my mind with this article+your comment. >

That's the point of the registry.  To keep punishing people forever because society believes that the crime is too heinous to ever forgive (which tbh, it usually is).  My problem with it has always been that not all of the crimes that you can be added to it for are completely unforgivable.  Politicians like to add to it to gain political brownie points with their bloodthirsty base. >

The funny thing about the registry is that in this case, it completely undermines itself. If the idea (in theory) is that these people who committed these types of crimes are so dangerous (yet allowed to be out of prison) that the public has a need/right to know where they live, if these people can’t get a place to live because of their background, and end up being homeless without an address, then nobody really knows where they live so it ends up being a waste of everyone’s time and energy and doesn’t keep anybody safe. >

Why would I want to sell my house to a pedo when my neighbours who have looked out for me (he stopped someone from breaking into my house while I was away) has a 7yr?