If you care to know if any registered sex offenders live in your neighborhood — along with their ages, crimes, photos and locator maps — you can just go here and scare the crap out of yourself.

But a convicted Utah sex offender — who paid his debt to society — says such long-term public humiliation and embarrassment is more punishment than many of the people on the registry deserve. He wants offenders to have a chance to at least argue for redemption.

Steven Arthur Briggs, who was convicted of sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl in 1986, argues in the Utah Supreme Court that the Utah Sex Offender Registry stigmatizes all offenders as sexual predators, even those who go on to lead unblemished lives.

In short, not all sex crimes are equal. Briggs' lawyer Lori Seppi argued to the Supremes that a 17-year-old male convicted for having consensual sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend with no history of repeat abuse, for instance, is not a sexual predator. At the very least, an offender should have the right to argue in court that his or her name be removed from the registry.

Chief Justice Christine Durham agreed that being put in the public registry could be far more damaging than the original offense was to the victim. Steven Arthur Briggs

It seems reasonable that not all sexual offenders should be electronically hounded the rest of their days. But Briggs, photo above from the registry, who abused a grade schooler, might not make the cut.