The article says that those convicted of kidnapping and false imprisonment of a minor are added to the sex offender list. Kidnapping and false imprisonment are not “ordinary” crimes. Your headline suggests that people are being added to sex offender registries for things like parking tickets and jaywalking.

I agree that these lists are harmful. As a form of de facto double jeopardy — in the sense that someone on the list is , in effect, constantly being tried for a single crime — they may even be unconstitutional. But don’t exaggerate things by suggesting that “ordinary” offenders are making it onto the lists. Unless, of course, they are adding jaywalkers and technical writers to the lists just for the hell of it.