"SB145 by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, would remove automatic sex-offender registration for young adults who are convicted of having anal or oral sex with a minor, leaving the decision up to a judge. Newsom has until the end of September to act on the measure."
This idiot Wiener is also responsible for legislation that lowered the criminal penalty for knowingly transmitting HIV from a felony to a misdemeanor.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/California-bill-eliminating-sex-offender-list-15529263.php
This isn't about easing up laws on sex offenders, it's about making it equal.
Right now the law says that vaginal sex is up to a judges discretion, but anal or oral sex is an automatic sex-offender registration.
This bill is simply making all three sex acts equal under the law, as the oral/anal penalties were the results of laws passed to make gay sex among adults illegal.
It's removing extra penalties that ONLY apply to 'gay' sex acts.
Now that the law is going to be applied equally it will be easier to make changes, so if you think the laws need to be stricter, now's the time to push for it. But that's not what this particular bill is about, it's getting rid of old discriminatory policies.
If you want to change minor sex laws to be more strict, I don't think we would disagree.
Can you find some language in any of the existing laws to justify your position that judges currently have no discretion when it comes to needing to apply these supposedly more strict penalties when it comes to oral and anal sex? I already searched the codes and found this "10 years or more younger language," already exists.
Sure, it's summarized in the article I quoted.
"Under current law, a judge can decide whether to place a man who has vaginal intercourse with an underage teenage girl on the sex offender registry based on the facts of the case. But if anal or oral sex, or vaginal penetration with anything other than a penis is involved, the adult must register as a sex offender — a relic of a penal code that criminalized those acts until 1975, even between consenting adults."
Here is the current statute currently active under California law...
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=PEN§ionNum=290.008.
290.008.a - "(a) Any person who, on or after January 1, 1986, is discharged or paroled from the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to the custody of which he or she was committed after having been adjudicated a ward of the juvenile court pursuant to Section 602 of the Welfare and Institutions Code because of the commission or attempted commission of
any offense described in subdivision (c) shall register in accordance with the Act."
290.008.c.1 - "(1) Assault with intent to commit rape,
sodomy, oral copulation, or any violation of Section 264.1, 288, or 289 under Section 220."
As you can see, if consensual oral or anal sex is performed, you are forced to register as a sex-offender. But consensual vaginal sex is not automatic.
The changes are removing sodomy and oral from the section describing penalties for rape.