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All, I’m embarrassed to say I just learned we have buttons on each post that allow you to share the stories on social media! If you look at the bottom of the stories and see colorful social media icons, the purpose of those are to automatically share the story on your social media account. I’ll excuse my ignorance by explaining

We don’t know where to begin. A story in the UK’s Daily Mail (https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11495915/More-400-pedophile-dens-California-18-sex-predators-live-together.html) about clusters of housing in California that house persons forced to register, which they call “Pedophile Dens”, paints a grievously unjust picture of the situation. From referring to the people forced to register as “Pedophiles” (which is a clinical diagnosis that most registrants DO NOT have),

In Florida, Governor Ron DeSantis announced a special state-wide election police to investigate people who cast a vote illegally and charge them with “election fraud”. Among those arrested and prosecuted were people on the sex offender registry who didn’t know they were not allowed to vote, but did anyhow after they were issued voter registration cards. The state’s constitution bars

International Megan’s Law to Prevent Child Exploitation and Other Sexual Crimes Through Advanced Notification of Traveling Sex Offenders (IML) was supposed to be a tool for the federal government to notify other countries regarding the international travel of sex offenders. In theory, it was supposed to authorize federal agents to provide warnings in the form of a “green notice” to

Last year, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) released data showing that it received overwhelmingly more reports of child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) from Facebook than any other web service it tracked. Where other popular social platforms like Twitter and TikTok had tens of thousands of reports, Facebook had 22 million. Today, Facebook announced new efforts to

In the past, the Canadian government followed in the footsteps of its American counterpart by enacting “sex offender laws.” Since the 1990s, however, the Canadian criminal justice system has taken a different approach to the issue of sex offender recidivism (SOR), focusing on treatment, rehabilitation, and community risk management. Over a two-year period, her research team surveyed the entire Canadian