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The following appeared in the National Lawyer’s Guild Review. It highlights the impact the negative sentiment towards sex offenders and strong political influence has on the treatment of this class of citizens by the justice system. National Lawyers Guild Review | Fall 2014 | Alexandra Stupple Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Courts’ Response to Sex Offender Legislation Sex offenders have been

Just as our goal for 2014 was to have a legal challenge against residency restrictions (and we were successful in getting one filed), our goal for 2015 is to have a legal challenge against proximity restrictions (and we WILL have one filed). Unlike residency restrictions, which control where a registrant can live, proximity restrictions control where a registrant can GO!

Yesterday’s Daytona Beach News-Journal reported on a home in Daytona which as many as nine registrants call home. As if it were any surprise, registrants are clustered together into limited pockets of availability as a result of residency restrictions and forced to scramble for a spot in one of the very few available properties that will (a) take them, (b)

Have you noticed that you’ve been receiving an increased amount of solicitations since you’ve been required to register your online identifiers? There is a suspicion that law enforcement agencies are targeting registrants’ registered “internet identifiers” in conducting stings. If you’ve experienced an unusually high number of unsolicited contacts via email or instant messenger from someone you don’t know who is

The following is a cut and paste, so I am attributing the source here.We are really glad this is getting the media attention it is. It’s time to start prosecuting the REAL predators!   Florida police lured innocent men into online sex stings and seized their property, records show Travis Gettys 05 Jan 2015 at 13:41 ET Police posed as

Today’s Washington Post features a story titled, “The prince and the sex offender: Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein’s mysterious relationship“. The article points out that last week British Prince Andrew was named in a Federal Lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein alleging some involvement in underage prostitution. Setting aside the merits of the allegation, it’s interesting to note how the article slams