Tom,

If your point is that the ID guy should fry, no big arguments.

But keep in mind what a broad brush "sex offender" is. In some states, relatively minor, non-violent or even "victimless" crimes can put you on a registry -- e.g., if you and a partner commit an act of public lewdness in a seculuded corner of a park and a cop happens by. Not a smart idea, but not proof you're a real threat to society. Or pre the Lawerence decision, any homosexual person in Texas could have ended up on the sex offender list. I'm not sure if people violating Alabama's ban on sex toys are subject to registry, but it wouldn't surprise me.

But that just further shows the problem with these "registries" -- they blur the distinction between monsters and those who've merely violated a moral code that isn't necessarily even shared by a majority of the citizenry.