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Blondie comments on this WaPo article that Six Flags is now attempting to exclude sex offenders from their parks by including the following language on the back of their tickets:

the amusement park reserves the right to refuse entry to anyone
convicted of a sex crime or required to register as a sex offender.

What? After Miami’s asinine ordinances and Florida’s proposed legislation, this shouldn’t strike anyone as surprising, but it is just plain ridiculous. Blondie explores Six Flag’s idea in detail. She writes:

This brings so many thoughts to mind. First, how to they plan to
enforce this ban? It is unlikely that Six Flags will be conducting
background checks at the gates. Most likely, the only guests that Six
Flags will be check are season ticket applicants (since these
applicants have to supply their name and it may be possible to do a
background check in the time it takes to complete the season pass
application process, which typically includes a photograph and other
identity verification). But, would it be possible to do background
checks at the gates? Possibly. This would require asking every guest
for identification, and using their name (and possibly other
identifying information such as address or social security number) to
log onto the state’s sex offender registry or call into the registry.
This would still allow some people who have been convicted of sex
offenses or sex offenders entry since (1) the person may be registered
in another state or not currently registered or (2) the person may have
been convicted of a "sex crime" but not required to register or not
required to register at a level that makes his or her name available on
the internet or by phone.

So who else should do this? Who else should ban sex offenders?

In the meantime, who else could (or should) ban sex offenders ban? The
most obvious idea that comes to mind is internet service providers.
They’d have the means to do a check because subscribers give their
names and credit info, they could easily add language to their terms of
service that makes it a violation to allow a sex offender to use your
account, and I cannot think of a better advertisement for an ISP than
"Now Sex Offender Free!" But, who else? Let’s think of the non-obvious.
What about car dealerships selling vans? Shouldn’t they ban the sale of
vans to sex offenders (since, according to the nightly news, this is
what sex offenders so often use to pick up their victims)? Come to
think of it, that might also be a good defendant to add for all of
those victims’ parents filing lawsuits against the police and their
city…

I will refrain from writing anything myself, because it will only descend into cursing, name-calling and general destructive mayhem.

Suffice it to say that I am extremely annoyed and generally frustrated at these lame efforts made at the wrong end of the problem.