Two decades after Ohio began labeling sex offenders on a public database and setting restrictions on where they can live, a major overhaul to the law is being proposed that could drop thousands of lower-level offenders off the list Some critics are even calling for...

From Marion County, Iowa arrives a dispatch from this country’s endless war on sexual civil liberties.  Ed Bull, the county prosecutor, drew national notoriety for threatening to charge a 14-year-old girl with sexual exploitation of a minor—herself—for selfies she...

So we all know how much local news stations play up the sex offender scare. Ratings are low... nothing compelling to report... thrown in a story about "dozens of sex offenders living in a motel" or "sex offenders in the parking lot of your grocery store" and people...

On Tuesday, July 11, 2017, an amended complaint was filed in the legal challenge to Florida's "Internet Identifier" registration requirements that is pending in Federal Court in the Northern District of Florida. The original complaint was filed to challenge the 2014...

And ANOTHER one. Check out her sentence for not only molesting the child but video-taping it! Talk about a double-standard! If it were a male teacher, he'd have gotten 20 years for the sexual assault PLUS more time for production and distribution of child pornography!...

Australia has passed tough, "world-first" legislation that will deny passports to about 20,000 people on the national child sex offenders register. The aim is to stop Australians who are planning to abuse children in regions like South East Asia before they even get...

The Tiered Registry Bill (Senate Bill 421) was passed today by the Assembly’s Public Safety Committee. The final vote on the bill was 5 in favor (Chairman Jones Sawyer as well as committee members Rubio, Quirk, Santiago and Gonzalez-Fletcher), one opposed (Lackey) and...

A Sixth Circuit panel concluded in Does v. Snyder, No. 15-1536 (6th Cir. Aug. 25, 2016), that Michigan's amendments to its Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) "imposes punishment" and thus the state violates the US Constitution when applying these SORA...