The problem with that being that many states have been expanding their definition of “sex offender” in a harsh-on-crime theme that, over the years, has morphed

The problem with that being that many states have been expanding their definition of “sex offender” in a harsh-on-crime theme that, over the years, has morphed it into something unintuitive. When you tell me someone is a sex offender, I think they’ve committed a crime against another human being and should be treated accordingly. I don’t think “this person got caught taking a piss in the woods off the side of the highway” (which, in fairness, is why NYS only requires level 1 - low risk, nonviolent, non predatory - offenders to register for 20 years rather than for life - wouldn’t want to be cruel and hound a public urinator for More than two decades).