When reading this list, it is important that you remember that we are talking about "offenses" committed as a teenager and that the event was consensual and non-violent.

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1.  They are registered online for anyone to see (not just to help law enforcement) and publicly labeled as "violent" on the registry.

2.  Extensive collection of information including photographs, fingerprints, DNA samples, home address, employment information, and online identities.

3.  Must register within 3 days of a change in residence or mailing address even when homeless.

4.  Must register within 10 days prior to change of residence if moving outside of VA.

5.  Must register within 3 days of change in employment, including becoming unemployed, retired, disabled, laid-off - this even includes a second job or more.

6.  Must register within 3 days of legally changing name.

7.  Must register within 3 days of any change in ownership of vehicles (includes watercraft and aircraft).

8.  Must register within 3 days of enrolling in or quitting or graduating from ANY institution of higher learning.

9.  Must register within 30 minutes of any change/addition to email address, instant messaging or chat screen name, or any Internet electronic communication name or identity.

10.  Must be photographed every 2 years by the VA State Police.

11.  Tier I and Tier II must re-register every year, failure results in needing to re-register every 6 months.  Tier II must re-register every 6 months, failure results in needing to re-register every 3 months.

12.  Must inform their residence jurisdiction of any intended travel outside the US at least 21 days  prior to that travel.

13.  Some cannot live within 500 feet of a primary, secondary, or high school, child day care center or public park that shares a border with a school and is regularly used for school activities.

14.  Some are prohibited from "loitering" within 100 feet of the premises of any place they know or have a reason to know is a primary, secondary, or high school or child day program or for the purpose of having any contact whatsoever with children that are not in their custody, of any place owned or operated by a locality that is a playground, athletic field or facility, or gymnasium.

15.  Tier III offenders cannot enter or be present during school hours, and during school-related or school-sponsored activities upon any public or private elementary or secondary school or child day center property.

16.  Tier III offenders cannot be on any property (public or private) during hours  when such property is solely being used by a public or private elementary or secondary school for a school-related or school-sponsored activity.

17.  Tier III offenders cannot enter a school bus.

18.  Tier III offenders cannot operate a taxi cab for the transportation of passengers for hire.

19.  Any person required to register with the "Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry" is prohibited from working for any Transportation Network Company (Uber, Lyft, etc.)

20.  Any person registered must declare as soon as practicable when entering an EMERGENCY shelter.

21.  Is is acknowledged and warnings given to those on the Sex Offender Registry online and in materials that they are routinely targeted by scammers claiming to be a trooper with the VA State Police.

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This is all taken from a Sex Offender and Crimes Against Minors Registry Guidelines pamphlet and does not even constitute a comprehensive listing of all the laws and regulations for the Sex Offender Registry.

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AGAIN, keep in mind that this is the exact same laws being held against teenagers who had consensual and non-violent sex as rapists and child molesters.

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We are destroying lives of our children, many of whom are now adults, and keep in mind that all of this costs time and money.  Time our public officials and law enforcement should be focusing on things that actually matter.

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IMPORTANT:  We are only discussing the fact that teenagers having sex (consensual and non-violent, even when the "victim" doesn't want charges brought, even when the parents don't want charges brought) and we are making the older teenager pay FOR LIFE.

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Help us stop this madness.

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Click HERE to view the official pamphlet updated 4/1/22.