These laws give the state and federal authorities a blank check to harass sex offenders and keep their lives and the lives of their families in constant turmoil. The sex offender laws are designed from the ground up to ensure failure and a return to prison. These laws have been upheld due to outright cowardice and judicial dishonesty.  Most local judges are elected, so politics plays the trump card in their rulings.  They'd rather be overturned on appeal than appear to their voters as going soft on sex offenders of all people. The same goes for our legislators.  They're cowards only looking for votes next election cycle.  Facts are irrelevant. They don't care how low the recidivism rate for sex offenders is.  They want their name on a new piece of harsher sex offender legislation so that they can get the votes. 

The "frightening and high" myth used by the SCOTUS in McKune v. Lyle has been soundly disproven by legitimate research.  It's time that laws upheld because of this myth die.