Author: FAC Contributor #3

Two days ago, the Union-Recorder in Georgia published a bizarre editorial. The editorial board noted that the state’s sex offender registry system drives people into homelessness and deprived them of counseling and employment opportunities, but laments this fact only insofar as it allows registrants to “fly under the radar” and makes them “more difficult to track.” Georgia’s registry system, according to

Wednesday’s episode of ‘The Dr. Phil Show’ featured a unique phenomenon. Vigilante “pedophile-hunters” are a thing. Dr. Phil described it as a “controversial form of vigilantism that law enforcement is just not in favor of.” What these hunters, who are regular citizens, do is they bait potential child molesters to arrive at a certain location. They then catch them on

The Herkimer, NY town board adopted a new law setting a limit on the number of registered sex offenders who can stay at a hotel or motel at one time, based on a point system. Town Attorney Christopher Bray explained that a registered Level 1 sex offender is assigned one point, a Level 2 offender is assigned two points, a

In the short time that Richard Gardner has been out of prison, he has moved to Providence, then to Cranston and now to a small house off Cobble Hill Road in the Saylesville section of Lincoln. Soon after nightfall Wednesday, the street filled with more than more 40 protesters, many of them accepting an invitation to move onto the snow-covered

Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is setting out to toughen sex offender laws. He is proposing two changes: (1) an increase to the penalty for rape of a child with force by someone who has already been convicted of sexual offenses to life without parole. and the establishment of a new charge for the rape of multiple children with force, which

A registered sex offender who dressed up and went to a south Alabama Christmas parade filled with children has been arrested, according to the Covington County district attorney’s office. Darrell Sean Campbell was taken into custody at a convenience store on Tuesday morning. He was booked on outstanding warrants for failure to appear in court, according to DA Walt Merrell.