Florida’s Animal Cruelty Registry Exposes a Dangerous Legal Lie

Florida’s new Dexter’s Law does more than crack down on animal cruelty. It exposes a decades-long hypocrisy at the heart of American registry laws. For years, courts have upheld sex offender registries by declaring them “civil regulation, not punishment.” That phrase has been the magic shield allowing states to apply registries retroactively without violating the Constitution’s ban on ex post

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The Michigan GOP Accidentally Told the Truth About the Sex Offender Registry

Every so often, a politician says the quiet part out loud. This week, Michigan Republicans did exactly that. While crowing about their latest culture-war gimmick — the so-called “Anticorruption of Public Morals Act” — Rep. Josh Schriver proudly declared that anyone who distributes pornography should be thrown on the sex offender registry. In his words, this is a tool to

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OMG! Pastor and registered sex offenders arrested after car wash

A local pastor is speaking out after court documents show he allowed registered sex offenders to volunteer at a car wash that was too close to a school or daycare. According to the documents, Dennis Potter is accused of allowing six sex offenders to volunteer to help wash cars on Sept. 14. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office said the car

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