Excellent Article: Queensland is creating a public child sex offender register. Will it keep people safer?

The Queensland government will this week table legislation creating Australia’s first public child sex offender register. The Queensland legislation, to be known as Daniel’s Law, was named in honour of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe, who was abducted and murdered by a sex offender more than two decades ago. But will this new legislation actually work to make children (and

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Scotland: Killer attacked fellow inmate ‘after discovering sex offence’

Robert Letham attacked XXXX XXXX after sneaking up behind him as he read a newspaper while both were in HMP Perth. Explaining the background to the slashing, defence advocate Kevin Jarvis stated: “He tells me that what brought this incident about is that (Sinclair) was known to be a sex offender – he knew that through news articles and others.

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Oregon’s sex offender database limits information. Is it too much or not enough?

Out of the state’s roughly 34,000 registered offenders, fewer than 2,000, are on the public database, or just 5%. State law only permits Oregon State Police to publish Level Three registrants – the group with the highest risk of committing a new sex crime. Information on other registrants must be requested through Oregon State Police, with a reason for that

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Child Rescue Coalition (CRC) technology.

This article profiles a Boca Raton firm, led by former federal prosecutor Greg Schiller, that has developed technology that purportedly tracks individuals currently sharing child sexual abuse material online. The Florida Action Committee welcomes pioneering efforts to the extent it identifies and stops actual sexual offending. That is precisely the kind of proactive, prevention-based approach FAC supports. In the event

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Opportunity to help in an important legal challenge

EDITED: I HAVE TO EDIT THIS POST BECAUSE I MIGHT HAVE CAUSED SOME MISUNDERSTANDING. WE ARE LOOKING FOR STATEMENTS FROM PEOPLE IN FLORIDA WHO HAVE BEEN IMPACTED BY SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS. PLEASE LIMIT RESPONSES TO ONLY HOW SEX OFFENDER RESIDENCY RESTRICTIONS HAVE IMPACTED YOU IN FLORIDA. There is an important case currently pending in the Middle District of Florida,

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