Comments on: From the comments: arrestees stay out?

By: jdgalt

jdgalt — Sat, 07 Nov 2015 03:50:28 +0000

I would think (and hope) that any such restriction would be considered a punishment. Therefore (1) it can’t be done to anyone not convicted and (2) it can’t be done to anyone who has completed his sentence (so he must still be on probation/parole).

Then again, the same ought to be true of sex-offender registration, but it has been upheld.

We need a new Supreme Court. Or at least a couple of new justices.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 14:28:42 +0000

Makes perfect sense to me, one case is a governmental power and one case is a private right. Which does a government have incentive to increase over time and which does it have incentive to restrict?

By: rxc

rxc — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 12:57:40 +0000

Don’t totalitarian governments do something like this? I seem to remember that Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov were banned from Moscow – exiled to Siberia.

By: Felix Kasza

Felix Kasza — Fri, 06 Nov 2015 06:42:49 +0000

I think it’s a grand idea. Employers, barred from asking questions like “Have you ever been arrested over the dead body of a colleague, a bloody axe in your hand?” will be able to just meet applicants in a city park. Applicant not showing up? Either not interested or …