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Sex Offender Registration and Notification in the United States: Current Case Law and Issues Published by the US Department of Justice, Office of Sex Offender Monitoring, Apprehension, Registering and Tracking (SMART). The full text can be found here

Several new laws take effect Wednesday, October 1, 2014. These include (but certainly are not limited to) the following requirements: – All “internet identifiers” must be reported to FDLE – All cars in the household (including cars you don’t own) must be registered “Internet Identifiers” must be reported to FDLE before use and vehicles must be reported within48 hours. For

Everybody knows that the rich can buy more “justice” than the rest of us. Get over it, right? That would be easier if Palm Beach County residents didn’t keep having our noses rubbed in it. Sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers last week got a federal judge to agree that the public should not be able to learn full details of

A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to three to six years in prison for failing to disclose a facebook account during his registration. The man was registered, originally, for an offense ten years ago. His current sentence is not a new sex offense or a new “crime”, just a registration violation. Failing to register a social media account. One blog comment

The California Sex Offender Management Board (CASOMB), a state organization, has begun consideration of a new tiered registry bill that would allow some, but not all, registered citizens to end their requirement to register in either 10 or 20 years. The bill would also allow most registered citizens who have been registered for 30 years or more and have not

The following article appeared in Slate last month. It was so insightful that it’s worth bringing to the top of the inbox. Sex Offender Laws Have Gone Too Far Linda Walker, left, and Patty Wetterling at a rally in support of the Children’s Safety Act in 2005 on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walker’s daughter was kidnapped and murdered in 2003,