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The right to travel is a part of the ‘liberty’ of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment. Indiana House Bill 1687 proposes that if a sex offender wants to move to another county, the supervising court in the transferring county has to issue an order authorizing the move and the supervising

A Kansas Senate bill barring registered sex offenders from school property got strong pushback Tuesday from some defense advocates who say it is based on inaccurate beliefs about offenders and would end up failing to keep children safe. The bill, submitted by Republican Sen. Kellie Warren of Leawood, stems from an incident on Feb. 8 in which a registered sex

In Tennessee, lawmakers are trying to pass ‘Savanna’s Law’ to create a domestic violence offender registry. The legislation proposes the creation of a publicly accessible registry for individuals convicted multiple times of domestic violence offenses, similar to existing sex offender registries. But is it similar? Maybe the look and feel and general concept of publicly outing domestic violence offenders, but

A Wisconsin law that requires certain sex offenders to wear GPS monitors for their entire lives doesn’t violate the Fourth Amendment, a federal court said. The state has a strong interest in protecting the public from repeat offenders and wearing the monitor imposes only a modest burden on the offender’s privacy rights, Judge Brett H. Ludwig said Tuesday for the

An attorney representing two convicted child abusers urged the Michigan Supreme Court on Wednesday to strike down both the state’s newest sex offender registration law and one imposing post-incarceration electronic monitoring for life. The pair of cases before the court, which were on whether to fully take up cases challenging the requirements, are the latest in a series of legal