The U.S. Sentencing Commission voted to publish for comment proposed amendments to the federal sentencing guidelines, including a proposal concerning how sentencing courts determine if a prior conviction is a "crime of violence" under the guidelines. You can read the...

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - A registered sex offender who performs with Cyrano's Theatre Co. will no longer be acting with the company. Jenson Seifert lists Cyrano's as his employer on the state's sex offender registry. He is a former teacher at Birchwood Christian School who...

My name is Sara Ohlms and I am a student at Columbia Journalism School. I am writing my master’s thesis on the sex offender registry and the movement to reform it. I am looking for people to illustrate what the registry looks like in action. How does it affect a...

The following was submitted by a member I obtained a new passport as an RSO in Florida last year just before the new "scarlet letter" law was passed. It contained no mark. After reading on your website the story about the man detained for just this reason, I...

Last week we reported about a person required to register for working as a santa. While there was nothing illegal about what he was doing, the fact that he failed to report it as "employment" earned him a registration violation charge and a whole lot of unnecessary...

According to an article in the Daily Mail, a UK news outlet, "Prison rape in America - perpetrated by both inmates and staff - remains pervasive." 15 years after the Prison Rape Elimination Act was passed in 2003. Florida has one of the worst prison systems in the...

House Bill 83 has been introduced in the Florida Legislature. The bill would establish a state-wide information system to track and manage, " the location, lab submission status, testing, completion, and storage of each kit required to be submitted for testing" and...

Florida Senate Bill 130, Sponsored by Senator Stewart, seeks to eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecution of a sexual battery against someone younger than 18. The amended language reads, "If a victim is younger than 18 years of age at the time the offense...