Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
The recent City Journal article warning about homeless sex offenders refuses to confront an Inconvenient truth. The very laws sold to the public as “safety measures” are what created this crisis in the first place. The high percentage of homeless people on sex offender registries isn’t a mystery. It’s not because they’re uniquely dangerous or morally defective, as the article
Read moreA Kentucky registrant is taking the state to court over a law that forces people on the sex offense registry to use their full legal name on their social media accounts and email addresses. The lawsuit, filed in federal court, argues that the state’s demand violates the First Amendment by effectively banning anonymous online speech for anyone on the registry
Read moreMigrants convicted of sexual offences will be barred from claiming asylum under new rules announced by the government, although they could still use human rights law to block their removal. Refugees already granted asylum will be stripped of their right to remain in the UK if they are convicted of sex offences. They will also be made eligible for deportation
Read moreWassenaar’s only regret was that he didn’t kill more. “Child molesters: I wanted to kill them all. That’s all I can say,” he told the Arizona Mirror in a recent phone call. But he did say more. “The taxpayers no longer have to pay for them,” he continued. “I’m paying my debt to society.” Wassenaar also claims he killed a
Read morePoliticians are becoming more brazen in their actual reasons for passing sex offender residency restrictions. In this news story, the sheriff was quoted: Chief Landon Swan of the Hereford Police Department explained the rationale behind the ordinance, stating, “What we’ve found is if we utilize all these different locations with the 2,000-foot radius, it actually lets us cover almost the
Read moreAlabama cannot completely prohibit convicted sex offenders from cohabitating with minors, according to a 11th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday. After being convicted of one count of possession of child pornography in 2013 and serving his sentence for the crime, Bruce Henry married and his wife gave birth to a son, but state law prohibits sex offenders from
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