This proposal is absolutely not appropriate.  Inclusion on the sex registry destroy's one's entire life, destroys families, and creates a subculture of citizen-felons after punishment.  The registry is already too large by including non-violent offenses, and its growing list of included offenses continues to lack good definition.  This proposal was written by those uninformed on the registry.  It is one thing to admonish behavior, and another to put a violator on a lifelong list of sex boogymen.  This proposal is not the purpose of the registry, which is meant to reduce the threat of sexual violence.  Its impact on lives is too serious and too damaging to apply this draconian instrument against people relieving themselves.

Public urination at worst is a minor ticket offense with a minor fine, if anything, or a warning.  It is making camping and hiking behavior criminal, that which is commonly practiced by millions of campers, hikers, swimmers, construction workers, children with mothers, forest rangers, the Cub and Boy Scouts, the homeless, children and parents alike with only a minor number actually reported - because most informed persons cannot imagine making this a crime.  People familiar with life in Europe, where travelers urinate along the autobahn, and no one in the civilized and uncivilized worlds except in America, criminalizes urination out-of-doors in the woods in secluded locations.

No responsible voter who has read about the registry in America would ever understand that this effort by Fairfax County is acceptable.  No informed politician will see this effort as just. It represents a hate crime against some in our society under the ruse of public welfare.  It will only be after hundreds of thousands of the lives of American citizens have been destroyed, that maybe the next generation will finally see this an an enormous injustice.  We in Fairfax County do not want to align our governance with this corrupt human rights violation.  This law making urination a registry offense is absolutely wrong and those that support this proposal show no signs of common sense or good judgment.  

I think it reasonable to accept the National Park Service Backcountry Regulations permitting answering nature's call so long as it is 20 yards away from streams, trails, and roads or the commonsense Leave No Trace guideline of at least 200 feet from water, camp or trail.  I think Fairfax County has a responsibility to publicize to the citizens of the County the end policy and any that voted in favor of this travdesty.  I think state laws should be reviewed by the legislature and changed as a first step in working toward fair and reasonable laws that do not include sex registration for public urination.