800,000 people in the US are now on the sex offenders registry [1]. I think it has become clear to at least half the nation that the laws have gone too far on things like teen sexting or getting put on the registry for public urination.

A friend of mine, her boyfriend is a trucker. He had pulled over to urinate along the side of the highway late at night, in the shadow cover of his truck. A state trooper had pulled over a speeding vehicle, a distance behind him along the road. The trooper proceeded to then pull in behind the trucker, and threatened to put him on the sex offender's registry for public urination; the trooper spent 10 minutes reaming him out for it before letting him go.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/us/teenagers-jailing-bring...