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A proposed change to Ohio’s Criminal Code could eliminate residency restrictions for sex offenders. The Criminal Justice Recodification Committee has finished reviewing Ohio’s extensive criminal code after two years. However, not everyone agrees with some of its recommendations. The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) opposes this specific recommended change, saying it’s meant to keep children safe. Right now, sex offenders

While laws keep anyone with a sexual offense anyplace in their history from living within 2500 feet of schools, Florida school teachers are  committing sex crimes. Yesterday, a Naples, FL teacher was arrested for two counts of sexual assault of a teen, sending information to harm a minor, and obscene communication using a computer to seduce a child. In June

As Broward State Sen. Lauren Book prepares for her annual walk to raise awareness about child sex abuse, she wants to make sure one of her harshest critics is nowhere near her. On July 26, Sen. Book filed a petition in Broward Circuit Court seeking a restraining order against Derek Logue, a 40-year-old Ohio man convicted of sexually assaulting an

Now the police are not only going after registrants, but those trying to help them too! A federal lawsuit filed against a county sheriff’s office in the Kansas City area alleges that an initiative to arrest sex offenders near a charity violates the organization’s constitutionally protected rights of religious freedom. The suit filed by the City Union Mission focuses on

It’s pretty sad and disgusting that this story begins by saying, “Before being killed and buried in his backyard in rural Michigan, a 72-year-old man served time for sexually assaulting a minor. The Michigan Public Sex Offender Registry states Roger L. Knickerbocker II in July 2000 was convicted of two counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim 13

The following is an excerpt from an article by Nicole I. Pittman and Riya Saha Shah of Impact Justice. The article is titled, “Cruel and Unusual: the Case Against Registering Kids as Sex Offenders” and you understand more, from these personal accounts, how horribly punitive the registry can be for relatively innocent offenses. “Jason was 14 years old and living