KY: Will fear mongering make it harder for registrants to live in long term care facilities?

Note that: However, since our report, Kentucky Senator David Yates, D-Louisville, and State Senator Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, are considering draft legislation on full disclosure. This is awful. It’s not in response to anything bad happening, it’s simply in response to this news story. Someone should contact these senators.

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Call To Action – Oppose SB 1732

Click here for printable Call-to-Action.  Contains Senate Committee contact information, talking points, and instructions for your call to action on SB 1732. In Summary, SB 1732: Creates new statute 83.555 “Landlord immunity from liability for leasing to persons with certain criminal records.” While this bill was intended to encourage landlords to rent to persons with past criminal offense, it appears

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Employers should “rethink” using criminal histories in hiring decisions, researchers say

One in three adults in the United States has been arrested at least once, a strikingly high number compared with many other countries. Now, a new study reveals one of the implications of that figure: Nearly half of unemployed U.S. men have criminal convictions, which makes it harder to get a job, according to an analysis of survey data of men

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Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with ban on sex offender name changes

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a case involving whether a transgender woman’s constitutional protections are implicated by the state barring her from changing her legal name to match her gender identity because she was registered as a sex offender as a juvenile. In that case and on appeal, Ella, now 19, charged that requiring her to

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Eleventh Circuit Smacks Georgia Sheriff Around For Posting ‘Don’t Trick Or Treat Here’ Signs In Sex Offenders’ Yards

[FAC NOTE: This is old news already… well not that old, but we already know this, yet the headline and article was too good to not share.] from the this-is-the-First-Amendment…-perhaps-you-two-should-get-acquainted dept Mon, Feb 14th 2022 3:43pm — Tim Cushing In 2018, the sheriff of Butts County, Georgia (no, really), Buford T. Justice Gary Long instructed deputies to ruin the Halloween

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