Do We Really Want Homeless Sex Offenders Living Under Bridges? 


Posted on May 5th, by Sean Cononie in Uncategorized. No Comments

 Do We Really Want Homeless Sex Offenders Living Under Bridges? 

For almost a decade and a half homeless advocates like myself has warned cities and lawmakers that the sex offenders laws they are establishing to make it safer for our children will, in fact, make it less safe in the future.  We said in the future these laws will create homeless sex offenders where no one will be able to monitor their whereabouts.  Be careful what you wish for was the words of wisdom we gave lawmakers.  Instead of even researching our statements they just kept on making the law so strict that it was and is almost impossible for a sex offender to live anywhere.   We were told we were just too compassionate and had no concerns for the safety of children and when I started to take sex offenders at my facility I was faced with death threats by community members.   I laid it out to the ones who were doing the complaining, what do they want a sex offender to live next door to them or in a place that had supervision 24 hours a day where we could establish even sticker rules for them to follow?  We could establish curfews where some of the ones on or off probation could not be assigned that rule. I would say where do you want a sex offender to live, in a house by themselves on your block in a corner somewhere or at my place where there is staff 24 hours a day.  I said living at a shelter would prevent them from bringing someone home to molest but if they lived by themselves maybe it was possible for them to bring home a 4th grader while you and your wife were at work and it would go unnoticed.  We could even set up a GEO-FENCE where we could place a GPS gadget on them and we would get alerted if they went by a school.  We did not need a judge to say it was court ordered all we had to say was ” If you want to live here than you must be placed on a GPS locator.

 
If we had places for them to go it would save precious resources where local law enforcement would not have to go and make sure the sex offenders were still living at their last residence. They would not have to go around all day with flyers and if they had to make contact with them all they had to do was go to a one-stop sex offender housing unit. One cop for all those living in the city. For the ones who were still on probation, the state could assign just one probation officer instead of appointment after appointment by many probations officers and go on sex offender raids looking for porn in their possession again taking up precious resources.  The money saved on staff could go to their housing for the released sex offender because once a sex offender it is almost impossible to get a job.  This would allow probation officers to spend more time monitoring the dangerous sex offenders making sure they followed the rules. 
The sex offender laws almost treat all sex offenders the same even when the person is nonviolent such as a person who gets arrested for peeing in public, yes I said peeing in public.  Some people get put on the list because of what we call a “Romeo and Juliet”  case where two people fall in love and the ages maybe against state law. For instance, a boy who is 18 falls in love with a mature girl 15 years old. In the older days, this was just a normal way of life and the parents signed off on the marriage. In both of the above situations, the two of them may be considered a dangerous sex offender, therefore, putting them on the list and both just became dysfunctional. Resources are also used making sure they comply with all the sex offenders laws as well as welfare being used such as food stamps and other services costing taxpayers lots of money.  Some states have now changed these laws where they have now changed the age of consent.
 
Some states even have laws of minors sending each other naked pictures on their smartphones. They get charged with kiddy porn and then put on a sex offender list. This has just taken a teen and made them dysfunctional for life. The lawmakers say they are protecting the child from messing up their future lives. What they just did is messed them up for good.  Adults make the laws as if they never had sex as a minor. They are allowed to have sex with each other but God forbid they send a nude picture.  Who makes these laws? People from another planet. I just don’t get it.  
 
As we have seen by recent stories in the news these sex offenders have no place to go.  They cant find a place that is legal for them to move to.  Now we have sex offenders areas where they can live on the street with no way to really monitor them at all.  They also are living under a bridge near you.   We made it clear meeting after meeting and we told lawmakers you are creating a system in the future that will make it much more dangerous for our children and they had ears full of voters without one thought of responsibility.  They knew it would happen but also realized they would be termed with “term limits”  in their politicals career so they did what they did just to make the voters happy. We only have the past elected officials in cities to blame where they made laws even stricter than state laws so no sex offenders would be able to find housing in their city. 
I write this letter now asking for former police chiefs, probation officers, and former elected officials as well as victims of sex crimes and parents of children who want strict laws on the books to come and join me so we can develop a task force where we can make sex offenders laws that make sense where it does not make the sex offenders homeless so we can make it safer for all children.  I can be reached at sacacon@gmail.com
 Written By: Sean Anthony Cononie




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