you can become a registered sex offender for extremely minor acts, such as being 22 and having sex with a 17 year old, which I'm sure plenty readers of 2+2 have done. My ex girlfriend was a federal public defender and trust me that not all sex offenders have done anything even remotely sketchy (although of course many of them have), so it's very dangerous to just assume that because someone is a sex offender that they molested a young child or anything of that nature. I think nowadays you can be put on it if you do some crap like sexting. Here's a good example:
http://www.secularcafe.org/showthread.php?t=5190
I could give more examples of the absurdly minor things you can do that would
It sounds like a completely insane decision of course....also is there some kind of rule that sex offenders can't play poker?