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About Us
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The vision of this organization is to abolish the multiple Sex Offender Registries across this nation. Women Against Registry also seeks to restore Life, Health and Freedom to all individuals who have been injured by the requirements of registration, especially innocent family members. We foresee a day when the suffocating stigma surrounding registration will be removed in favor of proper sentencing coupled with appropriate treatment; a day when the indefinite detention of civil commitment is replaced with compassionate programs designed to heal and restore. We hope for a day when virtually all who have offended against the laws of the land will be given the opportunity to rebuild a decent, honest life with the prospect of rehabilitation, reintegration, and redemption.
Through peaceful demonstrations, civic forums, media programs, and political events, we will attempt to educate society about the severe cost and complete beneficial void of maintaining federal, state, county, and municipal sex offender registries across this nation. The monumental costs associated with registries include monitoring, maintenance, and manpower for law enforcement organizations; the outrageously high cost of incarceration; the loss of millions of dollars in tax revenue, the truly false sense of neighborhood security; and by far, the most devastating cost of all is the loss of freedom, security, health and safety for the families associated in some way to this grand injustice. In addition, families who are trying to support their loved ones under trying circumstances, are being forced to pay outlandish commissary, phone, and travel fees.
Women Against Registry will be the voice of a vastly misunderstood subset of society. We will be the voice through stories that often relate a tragic, sorrowful, and brutally honest tale. We will be the voice of so many who, because of fear and stigma, cannot yet find their own voice. This is a difficult issue but we are resolute in our determination to be heard.
By speaking in calm voices about humanitarian treatment backed by facts; by conversing with friends, family members and strangers; by articulating points of injustice and fairness to our legislators; by speaking at conferences and at schools; by expressing our opinions on radio and television programs; by writing and responding to news and magazine articles; by all these methods and more, we will be heard. We are the soft but growing sound of more than 900,000 citizens required to register and perhaps more than 2.5 million family members.
There is simply no value in a registry system. We seek fair treatment and a second chance for those deemed (by an unbiased risk-assessment process), to be of little or no threat to society. There is incontrovertible scientific evidence showing extremely low recidivism rates for those who have committed sex offenses. As such, there are an exorbitant number of individuals suffering the stigma of registration unnecessarily. It is the mission of Women Against Registry to change that reality.
Women Against Registry
P.O. Box 463
Arnold, MO 63010
800-311-3764
contact@womenagainstregistry.com