U.S. Passports of Child Sex Offenders Will Note Their Convictions
Source: New York Times
The passports of Americans convicted of sex offenses against a child will soon bear a mark of their crimes.
The State Department announced this week that a sentence noting their conviction would be added to the back inside cover of offenders passports.
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Smaller passport cards, which can be used only for very limited international travel, will not be issued to such offenders because they lack room for a similar message. It was not immediately clear how many passport holders would be affected.
The policy, which went into effect on Tuesday, was required under legislation passed in 2016 known as International Megans Law. It is named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old girl from New Jersey whose rape and murder in 1994 inspired a slew of namesake laws that allow neighbors to be notified when a sex offender moves to their community. Her attacker, a neighbor, had previous child sex offense convictions.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/us/passports-child-sex-offenders.html
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Adulterers next? Then what? A six pointed star?
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)I'm not even going to touch the second thing. Ridiculous equivalency.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Whether on clothing or passports, it's an identifier.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Just leave them alone!!! Who cares if they're heading to Bangkok?
Have a nice night.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Run away now.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Wrong! It's a slippery slope. Where would you stop?
If you could stop it.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)....and someones religion.
You made an idiotic comparison.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)and your false equivalence of gov't overreach means pro-child molesters?
Squinch
(51,007 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)It could be a problem if theocrats run the gov't.
Just imagine Westboro Baptist Church in charge.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)idea that we should send people off to other countries to molest children because Westboro Baptist Church might one day rule the world.
I'll be over here in the real world.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Now you're coming up with that phony defending child molesters crap again.
Your real world needs your excuses.
Squinch
(51,007 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)snooper2
(30,151 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)So it's 'abnormal' to dislike child molesters?
Even Dennis Hastert got letters of support from his fellow republicans as he went off to prison.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)This advances you to the semifinal round to win Dumbest Post of the Week!
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)tymorial
(3,433 posts)I have no sympathy what so ever.
left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)Felons (I think) lose the right to possess guns, associate with other felons, to vote (in some areas), etc.
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Sen. Walter Sobchak
(8,692 posts)If this information isn't ICAO machine readable it is useless.
If you wish to notify foreign immigration officials of one's activities or that they're a threat to public safety you issue a green notice, you don't issue a passport endorsement.
juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)Russ limshit should have his passport questioned
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)Arnt some countries really free on age of consent of children under 18?
roamer65
(36,747 posts)Convicted felon.
Most countries will investigate any felony conviction before allowing entry, and rightly so.