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A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services. Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, are the current targets of the investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic

Earl Yarington, the author of the three articles recently posted at the FAC website on civil commitment, has asked that we share some of our stories with him concerning the effects of the registry on our family members.  He is writing a book on civil commitment and the effects of the registry on families, which parallels FAC’s new Non-Registrant Collateral

The Ohio Senate is holding hearings for a bill that could ease up on the punishment for teenage sexting, as lawmakers argue the current punishment can carry lifelong consequences.  Listen The proposed bill, SB239, still bans the act of teenagers sending sexually explicit images to other teenagers, however, it creates a standard punishment of attending a diversion program. Senator Nathan Manning

A Tennessee news station reached out to churches to get their take on a state bill that would require a person required to register as a sexual offender to provide written notice to the Church and obtain written permission before attending services. We believe this is a horrible requirement and that nobody should be required to shame themselves in order

ATLANTA — A sex offender rights group is accusing the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office of overstepping Georgia’s sex offender registration laws. In a letter sent this week to Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren, the North Carolina based National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) claims deputies are “imposing invented requirements not contained in Georgia law.” READ MORE READ ALSO

January 29, 2020 –The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) has sent official correspondence to Sheriff Neil Warren of Cobb County, Georgia, reminding him that the sex offender registry is a civil regulatory scheme and not a vehicle for further punishment. The letter also calls on him to cease and desist from imposing unlawful registration requirements or else