Author: FAC-3

The sex offender registry is supposed to keep kids safe, right? That’s the idea. In reality, across the United States the registry has grown into a massive database with nearly a million names, photos, vehicle descriptions, and an ever-growing list of details the public is expected to somehow sift through and memorize in the name of “safety.” On top of

There is a line between public safety and public hysteria. Increasingly, that line is being erased. In recent weeks, that reality played out in stark and unsettling fashion in the United Kingdom. In Aberdeenshire, a home believed to house a man with a past sexual offense conviction became the focal point of a growing mob. What began as anger quickly

The recent PolitiFact piece examining whether U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley (NC) appointed a registered sex offender to a party role is being framed as a political controversy. But it points to something much deeper and far more troubling: the quiet, near-total exclusion of people on the registry from any meaningful participation in civic life, no matter how much time