It really depends on how granular the laws get in certain areas.

But for example indecent exposure may not be a mandatory register on the sex offenders registry, but within 200m of a school or playground is mandatory. (even if it was 2am on a sunday in the middle of the school holidays during the dead of winter.) Like the whole getting booked for drunk driving for being drunk and going to your car to get a jacket.

There are people who are on the register who shouldnt be and people who absolutely should be who arent.

Probably happens a lot more to black people, at least in the U.S.

Define "a lot"

It can also mean someone breastfeedig in public

Yes, whoever couldn't afford a private attorney. I was charged with urinating in public once, public defender wanted me to plea guilty, i would have ended up on sex offender registry.

private attorney came in got it reduced to blocking the sidewalk. It's really that fucked in this country, nobody goes for committing crimes, that's just a coincidence. The real crime is being too poor to afford an attorney who will get you out of that.

Its a thing that has happened like once or twice but every sex offender pretends it was them that it happened to and lots of people like to perpetuate the myth.