Holy Orwellian Bureaucrats Batman!

Holy Orwellian Bureaucracy Batman!



Volokh Conspiracy talks about California's "Megan's Law Website" and First Amendment Violations thereon.



Let me get this straight: As a practicing real estate agent in California. I have to give people buying a home a Megan's Law disclosure. I have to get them to sign a copy to prove I did this, lest I be liable down the line. But I cannot look the information up myself and give it to them, lest I be liable to those self-same lowlifes who are listed? Mind you, we don't routinely give them the information actually listed on the website, but I would have thought nothing of helping clients look it up if they asked for my assistance. Now I find that if I did help them (maybe even just let them use an office computer if they don't have their own internet hook up?), I'm hosed?



This is brain damaged! Mind you, I haven't, but I certainly would have, had anybody asked before I read this! Just sheer dumb luck saved me! I hate relying upon sheer dumb luck



I ask the assembled readers what they would think of a real estate agent who tells them about the Megan's Law website but won't help them look it up on the office computer if they ask.



If I was a customer, and I didn't know it was illegal for them to help, I'd certainly be angry!



Concurring Opinions has more, saying it's not a first amendment violation, as Professor Volokh wrote he believed it was.



That's it. I'm officially in favor of putting non-attorneys on the Supreme Court.



This also goes hand in hand with my advocacy of transparency. If someone's a sex offender (or for that matter, a felon of any type), everyone should know it. And if they're not, everyone should know that too.