Quote Originally Posted by vic n View Post
It's always been my understanding that a sex offender has to be a convicted felon for some deviant behavior, and I would think public urination would be a misdemeanor charge.
Vic....the ticket isn't for public urination...it's for "exposing oneself". And justice is blind, so the perpetrator of public urination gets penalized the same way as a guy flashing a group of school kids, provided the ticket gets written up the same way. I'm not disagreeing with anything you say, 'cept insofar as that a sex offender does NOT have to be a convicted felon for some deviant behavior.

I don't know how the law reads, and what latitudes an agent might have. Seems like everyone knows the difference between being discrete and being flagrant so the situation and circumstances should obviously be taken into account. Kinda like someone flying down ice covered roads in a snowstorm. Maybe the officer can't write them up for speeding, if they were under the speed limit, but could ticket for reckless driving or "too fast for conditions".