After years of panicked and excessively punitive lawmaking against sex offenders, cooler heads are beginning to prevail. The U.S. Supreme Court, for example, last week struck down a North Carolina law that effectively banned registered sex offenders from using any...

Broward State Sen. Lauren Book voted “yes” last month to approve a state appropriations bill that included $1.5 million for Lauren’s Kids, the nonprofit she founded and leads as its $135,000-a-year chief executive officer. A gaping loophole in Florida Senate ethics...

Florida House Bill 699, which "[r]evises definition of term "Internet identifier"; defines "social Internet communication"; requires sexual predators & sexual offenders to register each Internet identifier's corresponding website homepage or application software...

Men in central Iowa and beyond have become the latest victims in a sexting extortion scam, according to the Iowa Department of Public Safety. The scam starts by an alleged woman contacting a man through an online dating app or website. Within days, the woman says they...

A U.S. Supreme Court win!  In a unanimous ruling the court struck down North Carolina’s law banning registrants from social media as unconstitutional; individuals on the sex offense registry have First Amendment rights.  The North Carolina law makes it a felony for...

[T]he Washington Post did a Three Pinocchio award on Justice Alito's misleading claim [that registrants have a high rate of recidivism] With the Post being such a respected newspaper I suggest a call to arms to email them congratulating on unbiased reporting!! We are...

The Florida Justice Institute and Weitzner & Jonas, attorneys for registrants on the Florida Sex Offender registry challenging a requirement that they register their "internet identifiers" and the websites they use them, regardless of whether they are on probation...