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Originally posted by steelepike
sometimes there are people who get that charge and it was an isolated case or even worse it really wasn't molestation it was something else. there was a story i read about a guy who didn't molest anyone but did commit something else but was labeled as a child sex offender so he had to let people in his neighborhood know what he did. This is also an invasion of peoples privacy, and their right to obscurity.
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What did he do then? A lot of times it's not just child sex offenders, sometimes it's also people who committed an aggravated sexual offense. Also it depends on the state on how the information is given out, but it's not likely that he had to do it itself. But even if he didn't "molest"- if he was still improperly touching a child, etc. it's still in effect. No intercourse has to happen.
The Supreme Court says registering sex offenders is not an invasion of privacy- it's a dissemination of already public information. The information is on public record- as are ALL criminal convictions. The state has a compelling interest in protecting the well being of it's citizens.
BTW- there's no explicit constitutional right to privacy. That's been created through case law and the like. It's not absolute either, if the government has a strong enough interest to override it. And there's absolutely no "right to obscurity", whatever that is.
Gotta love being a law student
You know way too much about certain things that you wish you didn't.