No, Tim. Wrong again. Urinating in public does not make you a sex offender by statute.

http://ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=2009&ChapterID=55

The circumstances of the crimes are provided. It's also spelled out in the article how to view them: Just click on the points plotted on the map, and the offender's name and the crime (including how old both victim and offender were) show up.

That is a link to Illinois law Ernie. Unfortunately, the crime is a federal one;
http://www.eagletribune.com/newhampshire/x1876416971/Lawmakers-Public-urination-shouldnt-lead-to-sex-offender-status

"The issue came up when the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006 was passed. A federal law, the Child Protection Act means states will have to start treating indecent exposure cases differently.

Shurtleff is on the committee tasked with aligning the new federal requirements with their New Hampshire law. When he realized that public urination - which is typically punished by a fine - could land someone on a sex offender registry, he proposed a bill to change that rule, House Bill 1294. He expects the bill to be taken up sometime next week."

Unless specific states change the laws, it applies by default.

Feel free to show were in your link IL has changed the law to exclude it, because if its not in there, it applies.

Sorry Tim, but you make it sound like public urination is ok. I'm sure that's not what you mean since its not only unsanitary and disgusting, but also creepy considering we live in the 21st century and most (if not all) civilized areas have some kind of indoor plumbing - even construction workers forced to be outside in the middle of nowhere are provided portapottys.

I 'heard' that by reading the Federal law passed in 2006 that makes public urination fall under the crime of indecent exposure to a minor if it occurs outdoors.

You should read it;
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ248/html/PLAW-109publ248.htm

And perhaps you should read the criticism that shows exactly how this situation has already happened in many states around the country.
http://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/ulr/article/viewFile/67/60

The US is a big and complex place. You should not dismiss things as false just because you personally have never heard of them before now.

So a GREAT solution to that public urination...find a public restroom and urinate in there as I am sure you were taught as a young child.

There is definelty a HUGE difference in urinating in an alley and exposing yourself while urinating to an underage juvenile. ive worked in law enforcement for 16 yrs and have NEVER seen or heard of someone being placed on a sex offender list for public urination. its usally is resoled by a disorderly conduct citation. You wont find a State's Attorney anywhere to try a public urination arrest to be placed on sex offender list unless it invovles a juvenile being in sight and or another sexual act along with urination.

Tim,
There is no Illinois statute for public urination. Until you can show that someone was arrested in Illinois and charged with a FEDERAL CRIME of public urination, you're ______ in the wind. By the way, urinating in public is not public indecency. Public indecency in Illinois requires a public sex act or "lewd exposure . . . with intent to arouse or satisfy the sexual desire".
Your link about public urination is a newpaper link about lawmaker's opinions about the Federal law. The law you cite does not appear to contain the words "public urination" in the definition of sex offender. The Utah article appears to have nothing to do with public urination.
If this is a real problem, lets see the Sex Offender Registry posting of an offender for Public Urination, Tim. Those postings are all public. Let's see it.

Ernie, pay attention. This is a federal law, not a state one. Under the federal law you MUST register as a sex offender if you are convicted of public urination. 13 states require this, and only 2 have the stipulation that a minor be present(which can consist of nothing but being near a public highway, where a minor MAY be present)

How many examples do you want?
http://www.solresearch.org/~SOLR/QnA.asp?group=20#Ref_SOexpos

http://www.shaneylaw.com/blog/2012/05/illinois-poised-to-stiffen-offender-registry.shtml
"Illinois currently includes the crimes of indecent exposure and urinating in a public place as offenses that can require offenders to be placed on the sexual offender registry for 10 years."

You have been given the federal law, and multiple examples of people having their lives ruined and labelled as a sex offender where no such crime ever too place.

Are you still going to claim it's not true and that it never happens?

No, Tim. You're not paying attention. Registration is within the State. You don't fly to DC to do it. There is no provision in Illinois law for registration as a sex offender for urinating in an alley. Nor is there in the Federal law that you cite. Quit citing biased, non-authoritative websites. The Federal law requires the jurisdictions to have registries. There is no Federal Registry. Another state's provisions really aren't relevant here.

Lets see that Illinois registered sex offender for public urination. You said it happens. Let's see it.

Ernie, there are literally dozens of links for you to look at here for people being on the list for public urination(charged as public indecency), couples who are both 16yrs old whose parents called the police(knows as 'romeo and juliet law'), and people who have been convicted of public indecency in their own homes.

If you don't want to read about it fine, but the sites that specifically lists all of these cases aren't 'biased'. I don't care if a gay transvestite unicorn in drag posted the information. I care about the information, not who gives it to me.

No federal law?
http://www.fbi.gov/scams-safety/registry
Is that federal? Or are you going to claim it is biased too?

And since you seemed to miss it before, here is the federal law;
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/PLAW-109publ248/html/PLAW-109publ248.htm
It's printed by the US govt printing office, is that biased and not federal too?

Granted, you are the guy who thinks that pot brownies cause lung cancer, so most people probably know your inability to hold coherent thoughts on complex issues by now.

Tim,
If when you urinate, it qualifies as public indecency, you're doing it wrong. 720 ILCS 5/11-30. Public indecency requires much more "active"? behavior.

http://ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs4.asp?DocName=072000050HArt%2E+11+Subdiv%2E+25&ActID=1876&ChapterID=53&SeqStart=20300000&SeqEnd=21000000

Yes Tim, a defense attorney's blog is not considered more authoritative than the statute itself. Clearly you are not at all concerned about who gives you the information. That's the PROBLEM!

Go back to your pot brownies. Since smoking it causes testicular as well as lung cancer. Check out the study by the University of Southern California.

Still waiting for that registered Illinois sex offender who is on the list for Public Urination. Come on, Tim. If there are so many, show us!

The link to answer your question is already posted Ernie.

The longer you fail to acknowledge it, the more you prove you are being purposely ignorant on the topic.

Interesting. I see no link from an Illinois governmental or law enforcement jurisdiction showing an Illinois registered sex offender who was registered for Public Urination.

Or is that the site from the unicorn?

As it should be!!!!!!!!!!!!! You are "publicly" exposing yourself, you do not know who will see this..........
I agree with Erica

Better make sure you don't have a window in your bathroom...
If you can be seen from any public area, even if you are inside your own house, you can be arrested for indecent exposure.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34483145/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/man-convicted-in-home-indecent-exposure/

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2012/feb/08/assistant-principal-accused-indecent-exposure/

The law is broken, and ignoring it will not fix it.

Why don't you post your address here, so you can get a feeling of just how badly the laws are broken when someone reports that they could see you going to the bathroom in your own house, and you have to register as a sex offender.

TIM,
A law is a law.
Those people should have thought about the consequences, before sending nude images to their gf/bf. Shouldn't people be responsible for their own actions?

Peeing has nothing to do with sex, of course.

But yes, if an officer saw you and arrested you in Illinois(or any of the 12 other states) for what you just described, you would have to register as a sex offender for a minimum of 10 years, and you would be one of the dots on this list.

Jill,
In Illinois you can't end up a registered sex offender for public urination. The links that Tim provides are from suspects and defense attorneys. Public masturbators almost always say they were just going to the bathroom. That's their EXCUSE, not what they were charged with.

Like I said Ernie, go ahead and post your address on Commercial St. so you can see for yourself what is and isn't a crime. All it takes is one person to 'complain' that they saw you naked through the window in your own house, for you to get charged with public indecency.

Up until this thread, you had no idea it was even possible to be charged with indecency for public urination, now you are prattling on as if you know all about it.

The point, is that the registration law is overly broad, and is ruining peoples lives who have done nothing wrong. Instead, you are getting caught up in the minutia in your obvious attempt to 'prove' you are right, and I am wrong. So like I said, post your address. If your claims of 'its not possible' are true, you have absolutely nothing to worry about, right?

Tim,
Still waiting for that OFFICIAL government or law enforcement posting of an Illinois registered sex offender for public urination.

Unicorn websites don't count.

Pretty easy to prattle on and on when you're anonymous, huh Tim?

Ernie, your refusal to read what was already posted, does not mean it doesn't exist.

Either you don't understand what was posted, or you are being purposely obtuse.

Tim,
I'm not big on unicorns. Still waiting for an official government or law enforcement site.

In case you hadn't heard, not everything on the Internet is true.

Ernie, it is now obvious that you do not understand what you are reading, or how to follow up with it on your own.

We can remove any doubts in your mind at all if you simply post your address here. You obviously need proof that relates to you personally before you accept this as true or not, no amount of documentation will convince you. Granted, it is a few hundred pages to read through, and I can't say I'm surprised that you haven't read any of it. So what better way is there than the first hand experience of getting arrested for indecent exposure in your own house to prove it to you. That is the level of evidence you are demanding, isn't it?

If you are right, as you think, than nothing at all will come of it and you can gloat all day long. If I am right, you won't even post your address here because in the back of your mind you know that it is actually true, and you personally don't want to deal with the consequences of a horribly written law.

Tim,
Only you could come up with such tortured "reasoning". You fail to differentiate between understanding and acceptance. I understand what you say. I don't accept a word.

Let's see. Anonymous poster who has absolutely no concern for the source of the information "he" posts, for whom there are several ongoing crises: statutory, enforcement, government of all kinds (which no one else seems to recognize). Advocates legalizing pot, vilifies the police, and pretty much is happy with no one and nothing. That about it, "Tim"?

Forgot that you think urinating in public is the same (charge at least) as public masturbation. A little late for the birds and the bees, "Tim".

No Ernie, not 'vilifies the police'... vilifies the PLAINFIELD police. I have absolute respect for departments that understand how to do their job, and have given praise to the Joliet Police department many times. When the PPD steps up their standards and level of competence, I will praise them as well. Until then, they will not get praise simply for being police. They have to actually earn it.

On a side note, there was an entire radio show on WGN yesterday that was discussing the Illinois law that if you are caught publicly urinating in Illinois, you can be charged as a sex offender. The topic was that the laws were so poorly written, that there are multiple ways to be caught up in the list without having actually meeting the original intent of the list.
An ex-Bear player was charged with indecent exposure this week, for... urinating outside a bar. That means he goes on the sex offender list, according to Illinois law.
http://www.wgntv.com/news/wgntv-fmr-chicago-bear-tommie-harris-arrested-20121002,0,4930264.story

Maybe if you keep saying it's not true, it will make it so.

Tim,
Where is it that in your authoritative post from WGN, that there is any indication that he is or ever will be a registered sex offender?

Still waiting for a single Illinois registered sex offender, for whom the offense was public urination, Tim. Public Indecency is NOT the same as indecent exposure. Indecent exposure is charged as disorderly conduct- NOT a sex offense.

Interesting, Ron.
So it was just to indicate how bad and abusive the law is?
"You don't even have to expose yourself to become a registered sex offender."

Do you believe that those that commit sexual assaults without disrobing should be exempt from registration?

Problem with Tim's "facts" is that he claims lots of things are facts. Rarely, if ever, are they facts. You and Tim need to check your dictionaries.