A Mandatory Online Sex Offender Registry Should Become the Law
If registered, this information is accessible through common media, e.g. Internet. This valuable information could serve as a powerful prevention tool for society. Serving as a warning, parents could better safeguard their children; women could recognize potential predators and sex offenders would know their crimes were public.
First to start the bill rolling, a woman’s right group would be contacted along with other interest groups in order to bring attention to a Congressman. Through lobbying, pamphlets, media attention, drawing the importance on the people being offended it would gain public attention. Statistics on the repeated occurrences of sex offenders would be presented, illustrating how and when these individuals are identified publicly would be beneficial in safety measures. Victims of sex crimes and their family members would come forward addressing the media. Gaining signatures, and forming a committee would gain more public support.
The interest group would then take another step and contact our Statesman. The Statesman put in a situation with massive media attention would be undeniably forced to address the issue.
To bring the bill to Congress is the next step. The Statesman would work the goal into Congress presenting the views of the interest group. Then the bill would be then be referred to the appropriate committee. The bill would be then routed to the subcommittee for intensive examination. After which, the sub committee would present recommendations and “mark up” the bill, and present the final out put to the full committee. Then the full committee then listens to the recommendations and holds a hearing. Members then vote to amend, accept, table or simply reject the bill. Further the bill takes another step to the Rules Committee whom schedules a date for the bill to appear before the House on the Calendar of General Orders, because it is a public bill.
The Rules Committee serves a sort of “traffic cop” and establishes time limits and rules for debate. To add, there is not Rules Committee for the Senate. Leadership in the Senate provides for scheduling and rules. At this point the bill is debated on the floor of each chamber. Finally, the Conference Committee meets to work out a compromise for the House and Senate version of the bill. After, these steps the president either signs or vetoes the bill. The Constitution provides that the president may either sign or veto a bill with in ten days. If the bill sits for more than ten days, it is automatically dies. If the president vetoes the bill, Congress has the option of overriding his decision by 2/3 of the both Houses in Congress agreeing.
When the bill is finally passed into law, the remaining steps are placed on the bureaucrat. The bureaucracy sets the rules and regulations in budgets to carry out this goal. From then on, they enforce the state to implement the new government policy requiring sex offenders to register and have a public photo. When the above is finally administered, the enforcement of this law is processed through state law enforcement.
