{"id":24,"date":"2007-03-12T21:15:17","date_gmt":"2007-03-12T21:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/green-is-for-sex-offender\/"},"modified":"2021-06-29T12:40:46","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:40:46","slug":"green-is-for-sex-offender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/12\/green-is-for-sex-offender\/","title":{"rendered":"Green is for sex offender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pity the poor sex offender. They have to register their address, can’t live near schools and playgrounds, and their names are available for all to see at the national sex offender registry<\/a>. And now, things are about to get worse. Ohio is considering a bill that would require sex offenders to put flourescent pink license plates<\/a> on their cars. Apparently, this is not as original as I first thought. Drunk drivers in many states are required to have special colors on their license plates as well. But Ohio would be the first to have them for this particular type of criminal. On the theory that “your car is your office” for many sex offenders, they hope to make it harder for them to operate.<\/p>\n

Ohio tried to pass a similar bill a few years ago but failed, partly because that version failed to distinguish between violent sex offenders and those who wound up on the list for consensual underage romance (16-year-old boy plus 15-year-old girl can get the boy on the database). They also aimed for pink that round, predictably upsetting everyone who sponsors breast cancer research.<\/p>\n

It is hard to feel any sympathy for s.o.’s, particularly if they are of the violent strain. One wonders, though, if we wouldn’t be better off just tatooing it on their foreheads, that way they could be identified everywhere, and it would cost less. The problem with a car is that other people may have to use it — like a spouse. The law would make it a misdemeanor to loan a regular car to a sex offender, which presumably means they couldn’t rent or borrow one if theirs breaks down. Would Hertz need to run a criminal background check and sex offender check<\/a> before loaning out a car? And I wonder how easy it would be to get insurance on the car itself… do you think an unattended s.o. car, with those bright neon plates, might have a slightly greater chance of being vandalized?<\/p>\n

On the other hand, I can see at least one real benefit. The kids would never<\/strong> ask to borrow the car.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pity the poor sex offender. They have to register their address, can’t live near schools and playgrounds, and their names are available for all to see at the national sex offender registry. And now, things are about to get worse. Ohio is considering a bill that would require sex offenders to put flourescent pink license plates on their cars. Apparently, this is not as original as I first thought. Drunk drivers in many states are required to have special colors on their license plates as well. But Ohio would be the first to have them for this particular type of criminal. On the theory that “your car is your office” for many sex offenders, they hope to make it harder for them to operate. Ohio tried to pass a similar bill a few years ago but failed, partly because that version failed to distinguish between violent sex offenders and those who wound up on the list for consensual underage romance (16-year-old boy plus 15-year-old girl can get the boy on the database). They also aimed for pink that round, predictably upsetting everyone who sponsors breast cancer research. It is hard to feel any sympathy for s.o.’s, particularly if they are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminal-checks","category-legal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentrylink.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}