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This document was put out by the The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at the beginning of this year, but it is very useful and filled with valuable information. You are encouraged to read and share it with others and apply the reasoning and research to your arguments when seeking abolition of the registry. comments-to-ali-on-draft-model-penal-code-on-sex-offender-registries-january-2021-.pdf

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mt., wants to ensure this doesn’t happen again and on Monday re-introduced the Denying Pensions to Convicted Child Molesters Act. The bluntly titled bill would automatically stop, upon conviction, tax dollars from going to pay for the retirement of child predators who worked for the federal government. Daines previously introduced the bill in May 2019 and again

Recently, the American Law Institute (ALI) proposed that the registry “be taken out of online accessibility and be, as they were originally intended, in only the domain of law enforcement.”  ALI used research-based data along with experts in the field and clinicians to develop their recommendations. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), co-founded by John and Reve

In its release against ALI, NCMEC not only makes falseimplications, they print actual lies. They imply that strangerdanger is a serious threat to children, but they lie in sayingthat if there were no public sex offense registry, companiesthat hire people to work with youth would have no way ofdetermining if a person had a sexual crime conviction. Toprotect children, we

Jacob Goetz with FSUNews.com for Florida State students in Tallahassee, FL, stated that according to the Tampa Bay Times, “2017 through 2020 saw a particular increase in crime on Halloween night…Some of the most common crimes committed on Halloween are assault, battery, vandalism and SEXUAL ASSAULT.”  When you read the article that Mr. Goetz references in the Tampa Bay Times,

It’s that time of year again. The time when new bills start being introduced this legislative session. One of the first to come up on our radar is SB 512, which is a resurfacing of a failed bill from last year, the crux of it’s impact on our population would be that it would require a “Vacation Rental” to be