The History and Future of MyFelon:
We started out as a directory of employers that would hire felons.
Results:
Three Cease and Desist requests from companies we listed.
Findings:
A.
Many companies will hire felons, but they do not want their hiring of felons to be public knowledge.
B. Insurance rates go up for those companies that hire felons.
C. There is a need for a site that lists employers that hire felons, many of our visitors were from parole and probation officers looking to help their assignees.
D. Any such site will need to be government sponsored and legislated to prevent lawsuits from companies listed.
We created a free social network patterend after MySpace to allow felons to work amongst themselves to share information about jobs, housing and other barriers after release.
Results:
About 3000 people signed up with about 100 active. Many people complained we were not doing enough for them.
Findings:
A.
No one wanted to do anything for themselves, they wanted the site to do everything for them.
News aggregator script to generate ad revenue
Results:
No traffic.
Findings:
Site failed to draw enough traffic to pay for itself.
Current content about sex offender banishment.
Results:
Site failed to draw enough traffic to pay for itself.
Findings:
Still getting traffic based on search engine indexing from Phase 2.
Poll:
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One of the most interesting sub categories of the United States justice industry is sex offenders. Sex crimes are as old as time itself, if you are a believer in Judeo-Christian theory, then you know some family banging was going on, of course man had not yet "fallen" so sexing up your sibling or your kid was perfectly ok with God.
In the United States, especially since the 1980's mountains of post-punishment punishments have been piled on sex offenders. These post-punishment punishments are commonly labeled as civil or regulatory in order to fool judges that have ruled on their constitutionality. Most of the judges are fooled into believing these punishments are not punishments. Even though long jail sentences are attached to these regulatory or civil rules, the judges still are fooled.
Even though the FBI estimates that only 16% of all sex offenders are caught and convicted, people focused on the convicted offenders, almost like they were angry that they were stupid enough to get caught, not that they were offending. Maybe that is because the people know that most offenders never travel more than ten feet down their own hallway to get to their victim and that their spouse, child or close friend or relative is part of the hidden 84%.
Why do we care? Because we now have 30 years of empirical data to examine. First, the sex offender laws, particularly registration, was for law enforcement only, then it was for the public, then the public wanted sex offenders banished, so banishment laws came about. Then people realized banishment only mandated when an offender could sleep, so they wanted exile, they wanted sex offenders to not be able to go certain places.
But now.... felons... beware.. all the rules that started with sex offenders are being used for other offenders. Drug, arson, domestic and animal abuse, drunk driving and murder are now registered in certain states and communities. In some areas drug offenders have exile restrictions just like sex offenders.
In the US, states, localities, and private communities have implemented laws to limit the places of residence of convicted sex offenders. (Banishment) and laws that restrict loitering or physical presence. (Exile)
We are going to identify those jurisdictions. Please be patient, the laws are changed or added faster than we can edit the site. We are also going to start an unofficial registry of other folks as outlined below.**
Definitions - Links
Banishers - Jurisdictions that pass laws stating where an offender can live.
Exile - Jurisdictions that pass laws stating where an offender can go.
Vigilantes - People that are unrelated to the offender's case that attack offenders physically.**
Harassers - Individuals, groups or organizations that attack or insult specific offenders or offenders in general in person, in the media or through the internet.**
Activists - People, individuals, groups or organizations, including politicians and other officials that speak out to the media in support of additional post-punishment restrictions on offenders.**
**The information on this web site is made available solely to inform. Anyone who uses this information to commit a crime or to harass a vigilante or his or her family is subject to criminal prosecution and civil liability.