LA: 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 by “not posting on their profile that they were convicted sex offenders, conviction information, address,

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Iowa Governor Restores Voting Rights to Former Felons (other than those convicted of crime involving homicide).

The Governor of Iowa has signed an executive order restoring the voting rights and the right to hold public office, to most people who have committed criminal offenses. https://governor.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/EO7%20-%20Voting%20Restoration.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery The good is that it does not exclude persons who have committed an offense in the category of “sex offenses” The good is that the preamble recognizes that restoration of voting

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Our System Is Not Doing the Thing It Says It Intends to Do

The whole idea was that we are going to protect children. But because most abuse of children happens inside the family, the registry doesn’t affect that. It just creates more “stranger danger” fear. The research for twenty-five years shows it doesn’t make anyone safer. Instead, it does a great deal of harm, not only to individuals and their families but

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