@sjmc1989 Depending on your district, indecent exposure IS most definitely considered a sex offense.
That is one of the biggest problems with forced registration of sex offenders, ANY sex offense, whether it be indecent exposure, statutory rape, whatever, it labels you forever as a sex offender. You know that those kids who are getting caught with naked pictures of themselves on their cell phones, are now registered sex offenders for life? (unless some new law retroactively ends that).
Not to mention registration is forcing these offenders to pay for their crime for their entire life (almost always after serving a lengthy prison sentence among other punishments). No other crime, even manslaughter and murder (and yes, some murders do get out of prison eventually, a life sentence is only 25 years), forces convicts to register as such.
(disclaimer, i do not support rape or child molestation at all, and in fact think such crimes should carry death sentences…. but all these other “sex offenses” are stupid imo)