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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Shame on the City of Oswego

"As a New York based advocate for registry reform and fiancée of a registered sex offender whose crime was committed when he was a minor, it was with great disappointment to learn this morning that seven councilmembers voted to restrict a registered sex offender’s ability to legally gain employment as a taxi driver in the City of Oswego. While this proposal is well-intended, it is premised on myth and emotions – not facts – and will undoubtedly fail to achieve its intended goals as well as create yet another barrier for registrants to find steady employment.

Contrary to popular belief and the sentiment of some of the councilpersons, sex offenders have the next to lowest recidivism rate of all offender groups. This has been widely documented by academics and law enforcement researchers. The myth of high sex offender recidivism has now been firmly discredited, but not by politicians who find that these facts do not square with the stories they’ve been telling their constituents.

Because of this big lie that continues to be told, law abiding former sex offenders are treated differently than all other former offenders – even murderers. Branden Kuzel’s September 10 statement on cnycentral.com displays the pervasive intolerance held by many members of the public - that all felons except sex offenders deserve second chances."

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Oswego passes law prohibiting sex offenders from driving taxis 
 
http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=805054#.UGMZoq7k9Cg

City of Oswego considering blocking felons and sex offenders from driving taxis 

http://www.cnycentral.com/news/story.aspx?id=799348#.UGMaI67k9Cg