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A judge has refused to dismiss a Chancery Court lawsuit challenging a state law that requires certain sex offenders on probation to wear an ankle GPS monitor. The suit, filed in May by the American Civil Liberties Union, claims that the GPS monitoring law, enacted in 2007, is unconstitutional because it is being applied to those convicted of crimes that

This story is only interesting for one of the last sentences, which is extremely important   _______ Frustrations are mounting on an issue Minneapolis city leaders say is burdening nearly a dozen neighborhoods. A draft report, more than two years in the making, has found that certain areas of North and South Minneapolis have 790 predatory sex offenders clustered together

The below post appeared on the “With Justice for All” blog and contained one of the most striking points I’ve read in a while: “When an adult man is duped by a 15-year-old girl into believing she is 18, he will be prosecuted for the reality, not for what he believed. But if that same man is duped by an

Last week a Judge in Illinois declared their requirement that registered citizens register all internet sites a registrant uses to be unconstitutional. The judge, in his opinion, quoted an earlier Nebraska federal court decision on the same issue, which held that ordering a sex offender to report all access to Internet sites “clearly chills offenders from engaging in expressive activity

1,000 feet is 1,000 feet, right?  Apparently not when measuring how far away sex offenders can live from parks and schools.  An NBC2 investigation uncovers differences in the way the state and local law enforcement agencies measure that distance. [FAC COMMENT: THANKS FOR MAKING A VERY VALID POINT FOR US. THESE ORDINANCES ARE VAGUE AND ARBITRARILY APPLIED, WHICH MAKE THEM

Over the past couple of days the story of Matt Gaetz (son of Don Gaetz who coined the “scorched earth for sex offenders” phrase) called in to a Sirius XM talk show on politics and admitted that the Florida registry might need some reform. There are two significant events which formed the catalyst of the admission that sex offender laws