No candy or treats at this residence

I'm starting this blog because I'm an avid believer in people's rights to free speech, right to privacy, and a believer that laws should be just. In recent months I have noticed oddball laws in the State of Missouri. I understand why some of these exist, but don't necessarily agree with some of them since they put strange restrictions on people or things that people do. Take this for instance:


http://www.senate.mo.gov/08info/BTS_Web/Bill.aspx?SessionType=R&BillID=193

Section 589.426

This act restricts certain activities of sex offenders on Halloween. They are required to avoid all Halloween-related contact with children, remain inside his or her residence between 5 and 10:30 p.m. unless there is just cause to leave, post a sign stating, "No candy or treats at this residence", and leave all outside residential lighting off during the evening hours.

In Missouri, a sex offender is anyone that is put on to the state's sex offender list. I'm not on the list, and probably never will be, but based on what I've read and/or heard about those that can get on to that list include those that some other states would never consider putting on such a list because the qualifiers to get on the list are insanely, well, insane in some cases...

...Anyways, I guess anyone who's on that list can never go to a Halloween party again? Wait, would a party be a "just cause?"... Hey, isn't All Hallow Even the eve of All Saint's Day?... i.e. what used to be the Vigil of All Saints and All Souls Day... something that some might consider a holy day. I don't think it's a Holy Day of obligation... but wouldn't this law come close to crossing the lines of state and church, not to mention privacy laws? Is sitting inside of a house watching a tv show with kids on it or surfing the internet, or even just logging on to a mmorpg (massively multiplayer online role playing game) considered a "Halloween-related contact with children"... I know that when I used to play Entropia my character got a pumpkin head mask for logging on the week of Haloween. If someone on the sex offender registry did something like that would they be breaking the law? If so, how the heck is that enforcible? What about that letter thing... are cops going to visit each house on the offenders list and look for the letter posting and that the lights are out outside? What if some kid pulls a prank and yanks the sign down before the cop shows up????...