David Post: In a single day, the Kansas Supreme Court issues important constitutional opinions — and overrules them

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. On Friday the Kansas Supreme Court issued decisions in three cases — State v. Buser, State v. Redmond and Doe v. Thompson — holding that Kansas’s Offender Registration Act, requiring anyone previously convicted of various violent felonies, drug crimes or sex offenses to register with state authorities, cannot be constitutionally applied to people whose underlying

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Proposed bill requires landlords to notify tenants if registered sex offenders work on property

SUBURBAN BOCA RATON – A South Florida mother hopes close a loophole she says puts kids in danger. The property manager at her apartment was convicted of sexually assaulting her son in 2013. That man was a registered sex offender at the time, having served time for child pornography charges. She worked with an attorney to sue her landlord. Through

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'Sexual Predator' Ex-Prosecutor Admits Guilt in Federal Case

A former Louisiana district attorney solicited sex from at least 20 women in exchange for offering favorable treatment from his office, authorities said Wednesday after the veteran prosecutor pleaded guilty to obstructing their long-running investigation of him. They described him as a sexual predator after he pleaded guilty to a narrowly tailored charge of harassing a witness and trying to

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