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U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett (Northern District of Iowa) reluctantly dismissed a challenge to Iowa’s Civil Commitment program. Civil commitment, which is a quasi-incarceration program that allows a state keepsex offenders confined after they serve their prison terms, has been challenged in a number of jurisdictions, most notably Minnesota’s program. Recently, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Minnesota’s

A Level 1 sex offender from the Tuscarora Indian Reservation was sentenced Thursday to a year in the Niagara County Jail for not telling authorities one of his social media passwords. ______________, 48, of Susie’s Lane, must register because of a misdemeanor sex conviction in 2004, defense attorney David J. Mansour said. In April, _________ pleaded guilty to a felony

SOURCE: ACLU The ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Legal Services of Greater Miami filed a motion in lawsuit challenging Miami-Dade County’s onerous residence restrictions and its practice of forcing individuals into homelessness MIAMI, FL – Attorneys from the ACLU, ACLU of Florida and Legal Services of Greater Miami filed a response opposing summary judgment in a lawsuit challenging Miami-Dade County’s

A Texas pastor who plead guilty to possessing child pornography was handed an unorthodox sentence. In addition to the probation and other “sex offender conditions” he will have to serve, the court ordered that he post a sign at his residence saying, “A person on probation for a child sex offense lives here.” The man is responsible for paying for

The ACLU has filed its response to Miami-Dade county’s Motion for Summary Judgment in the Sex Offender Residency Restriction Lawsuit that is being litigated in federal court for four (4) years already. The lawsuit was already dismissed once, but appealed to the 11th Circuit, who reversed the decision and sent it back down to the District court. Below is a

This video is a must watch. It’s NC attorney Paul Dubbeling, speaking at the 2018 NARSOL conference.