It’s time for law enforcement to step in and stop vigilantes and opportunist “predator hunters”
They give themselves names like "Dads Against Predators", "Predator Snatchers", "Predator Patrol" or "POPSquad". They are groups of vigilantes who admittedly intentionally stage bait operations to lure individuals to locations thinking they are meeting a minor for...
read moreUPDATED: Shame on the VA for firing registrant-owned business because of bad press.
Well this is horrible... a man convicted of a sexual offense in 2007 turned his life around and started a janitorial business. He gets a contract providing janitorial services for the VA. USA today writes a story about it and the VA cancels the contract. Here we have...
read moreBBC Documentary: Can Sex Offenders Change?
A new documentary will be airing August 20th on BBC. Follow Becky Southworth as she steps into the unsettling world of sex offender rehabilitation. Meeting the sex offenders living in our communities, Becky tries to understand what drove them to commit these horrific...
read moreTN: Win in Tennessee – District Court Denies State’s Motion to Dismiss and Grants Injunction on Ex Post Facto Grounds
A Tennessee Federal District Court last week denied the State's Motion to Dismiss and ordered an injunction preventing them from enforcing the sex offender registry against an individual whose offense pre-dated the enactment of the ordinance. The best part of this...
read moreDon’t Tread on Me!
Take two individuals who commit the exact same federal offense. One person lives in State “A” and the other in State “B”. The person living in A will be on the public registry for life while the person living in B will be on for 10 years. Then there are two completely...
read moreWhy some lawyers don’t take RSO cases.
Wonder why so many lawyers refuse to touch any cases involving RSOs? Here's one reason why? Attorney, Patricia Sigman is a candidate running for Florida Senate, District 9. She is the target of a smear campaign by her opponent, which accuses her of representing a...
read moreLA: Is this for real?!? Registrants arrested for not disclosing status on social media
Sometimes we come across a news story that I have to read twice to make sure I'm not hallucinating. Several news outlets in Louisiana are reporting that the Acadia Parish Sheriff's office conducted a crack down on registered persons who were violating a Louisiana law...
read moreAssembling the Chimeric Sex Offender
The following (very technical) study (from what I could understand of it) discusses the harm caused by the "sex offender" label. Assembling the Chimeric Sex Offender It contains a lot of terms of art, which make it a difficult read, but if you can extrapolate the...
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