State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry

I*Love*Green*Olives writes to tell us the Toledo Blade is reporting that State officials have rubber-stamped a "civil-registry" that would allow accused sex offenders to be tracked with the sex offender registry even if they have never been convicted of a crime. From the article: "A recently enacted law allows county prosecutors, the state attorney general, or, as a last resort, alleged victims to ask judges to civilly declare someone to be a sex offender even when there has been no criminal verdict or successful lawsuit. The rules spell out how the untried process would work. It would largely treat a person placed on the civil registry the same way a convicted sex offender is treated under Ohio's so-called Megan's Law."

Pre-crime?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do we get jetpacks now? And what about that cool glove-controller and large screen interface?

Witch hunts

[Lord Fury]

I don't know why everyone is so against this. Other state-sponsored witch hunts have proven effective. There aren't any witches around anymore, are there? And we all know, that no innocent people were hurt either. Right? Right?

Re:Worst idea ever.

[__aaclcg7560]

Now you can just accuse someone and ruin their life?

Why not? It's been happening for years in California.

I've got the torches.

[scenestar]

You guys bring the pitchforks.

Time for some good ole mob justice.

(just kidding, this kind of legislation is really unnerving for eurotrash such as myself)

Re:For those who aren't going to RTFA

[Anonymous Coward]

Basically, instead of allowing all the people molested by Catholic priests to be prosecuted and sent to jail.

Geez. First they're molested, then they're sent to jail

Some life.

Re:Witch hunts

[Lactoso]

She turned me into a newt...

Suggestion

[repvik]

Hey, this is GREAT! Just accuse all the politicians in Ohio of being offenders. Ruin their lives forever! That'll teach 'em ;-)

I can just see it now...

[Tavor]

"Ohio State Attorney General accused of Sex Crime, placed on Offender List"
Film at 11...

Which country was this again?

[nick_davison]

Sorry, didn't bother to read the article but I hear it's about some country with a repressive regime that keeps quashing citizens' rights?

With luck, the United States will soon invade, deposing that corrupt regime and give those cowed citizens the same constitutionally protected liberties Americans experience every day. Tony Blair has already pledged his support.

Do they have oil? Weapons of mass destruction? Are they trying to advance their knowledge of nuclear weapons? Do they have large chemical weapon stockpiles? Do they frequently piss off the U.N.? Can we allege they have a "School Of The [Whatever Region]" terrorist training camp? Can we accuse them of trying to destabilize entire regions? Do they "kidnap" citizens of other nations, holding them for torture and interrogation rather than uphold international law and conventions?

If we can answer yes to two or three of the above, I'm pretty sure we have grounds to invade.

Now who was it again?

Maybe she's really ugly...

[Anonymous Coward]

and wants a list of surefire dates?

Re:Which country was this again?

[Anonymous Coward]

Only on slashdot where a clueless poster who admits he didn't RTFA get modded up.

Re:not as bad as it sounds

[Pieroxy]

I'm not saying it's good or bad, I'm saying there's a difference.

Or you can look at it the other way: We're all prisonners of earth after all (or say... the solar system, that'll hold for a while). So finally being in a 10x10 cell or in a 20-planet solar system, it's all the same. We're all prisonners.