Should psychotherapists be required to report patients who look at child porn?
For years, California law required psychotherapists to report any patient who admitted developing, duplicating, printing or exchanging material depicting an obscene act involving a child. The therapists accepted that requirement. They regarded it as an obligation to...
read moreFlorida Compassionate Release Bill Excludes the Usual
State Rep. Bobby DuBose filed House Bill 837 which would grant early release to a prisoner who is suffering from “a significant terminal or non terminal condition, disease, or syndrome that has rendered the inmate so physically or cognitively impaired, debilitated, or...
read moreGuards Committing Sexual Abuse in Florida Federal Prisons
Fourteen current and former inmates of a federal women's prison in Florida have filed a federal lawsuit saying guards subjected them to unending sexual abuse and threats. When the inmates tried to report the misconduct, the suit alleges, they were shuttled off to a...
read moreUnnecessary shaming: Identifying shooting victim as a registrant
A tragic murder-suicide took place in Cape Coral, Florida this week. A mother shot her dog, her son and then herself. Neither her nor her son survived. The news media couldn't help but identify the victim as a sex offender, even though that was completely irrelevant...
read moreMember Submission: Helping the transients
As I posted earlier at this website, I am reading of warming centers throughout the eastern part of the U. S. Inevitably there is always the same statement: sex offenders (or registrants) are not allowed. I cannot imagine what it is like for these men and women who...
read moreRide share programs sued over sexual assaults
Today, the NY Times reported that over 3000 sexual assaults were reported in US rides last year. Lyft has reportedly been sued by 55 women to date, for sexual assaults committed through their service. Both services screen their drivers for criminal backgrounds and...
read moreSex offender registry law in Pa. facing life-or-death test at Supreme Court
The landmark Pennsylvania law that for nearly a quarter of a century has required a public registry of sex offenders and community notification about their whereabouts is facing a life-or-death challenge before the state’s highest court. Enacted nearly 25 years ago,...
read moreOnline Dating Apps and the Sex Offender Registry
This past week, several news outlets have republished a story that originated with ProPublica, the theme of which is that certain online dating applications are not screening for persons required to register as sex offenders and that users of those apps are somehow...
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