Massachusetts Knocks Out Residency Restrictions

Another state to defeat municipal sex offender residency restrictions is the State of Massachusetts.     LYNN — Sex offenders can legally live wherever they choose, according to a court ruling that nullifies the city’s sex offender ordinance. “A decision came down last week that no city can enforce a sex offender residency requirement,” said city attorney James Lamanna Friday.

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I Saw a Man Get Arrested For a Sex Crime Because He Made a Scheduling Error

The article below was written by Lenore Skenazy. Lenore is a journalist and author who was the keynote speaker at this past week’s RSOL conference in Dallas. The excitement of this year’s conference was somewhat overshadowed by the arrest of Josh Gravens. Gravens is a Texas registrant who is on the list for an offense committed when he was 12.

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We Must Destroy the Children in Order to Save Them

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/07/11/we-must-destroy-the-children-in-order-to-save-them/    My colleague Tom Jackman’s story about the efforts of officials in Northern Virginia to forcibly induce an erection in a teenage boy in order to pursue “sexting” charges against him has deservedly provoked national outrage. As Jackman points out, Manassas police have since backed down and now say that they won’t execute the warrant. Of course, there remains the problem of why the warrant was

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