Experts call out “journalist” for fake re-offense statistics

Jenny Day, a reporter for Yuma, Arizona’s NBC News Affiliate KYMA (Channel 11) is getting pushback from experts who are calling her out on some false statistics she reported on in a story about sex offenders in the community. She claims “Statistics show 99% of child sex offenders reoffend, yet they are still being released into our community.” which we

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Will someone please correct this journalist?!?

Yuma, Arizona’s NBC News 11 just posted a horribly misleading article titled, “Released to Reoffend: News 11 investigates the sex offender next door.” The irresponsible news story makes the absurdly inaccurate statement that “Statistics show 99% of child sex offenders reoffend, yet they are still being released into our community.” The statistic allegedly comes from an organization called “Amberly’s place”

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Exonerated man explains what it’s like to be wrongly labeled a “sex offender”

For more than 20 years, Troy Mansfield was branded a “registered sex offender,” a shameful asterisk by his name that followed him everywhere. The father of two sons struggled to support his family from a cleaning business, purposely in his wife’s name, Amy Mansfield. “We lived between $16,000 and $19,000 a year, for a family of four – so very

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NJ: Public Defenders Office seeks to join lawsuit to end sex offender registration for Juveniles

The state’s Public Defender’s office is hoping to join a federal lawsuit that is seeking to eliminate Megan’s Law registration for all juvenile sex offenders in New Jersey, Extensive research has shown that recidivism rates for juvenile sexual offenders are extremely low and putting them on a registry may actually have little effect on public safety while causing severe psychological

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NY: Sex offender rules an inconsistent maze

A New York law that is intended to protect children from convicted sex offenders has created a maze of contradictory policies and regulations, leading to inconsistent enforcement and confusing online tracking systems. The disparities have also resulted in sharply different residency requirements for offenders convicted of similar crimes and an increasingly perplexing system that makes it difficult for the public

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Shady Grady Judd at it again.

“Shady” Grady Judd, sheriff of Polk County is at it again. Another name and shame opportunity for people required to register. This time it was “Operation Trick-or-Treat” a month-long operation that resulted in the arrest of 18 out of 1449 registrants (1.2%) in Polk County for petty technical registration violations. Way to go Grady!!! How much did that month-long operation

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