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A subcommittee of the state Sentencing Commission is working to create a process to allow certain individuals to be removed from the public sex offender registry. After at least two attempts to reshape the law regarding people who have committed sex offenses, the General Assembly’s Incarceration and Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction Subcommittee will hear a presentation Thursday on two

Laws intended to tackle child abuse are resulting in young men in consensual relationships being imprisoned. Activists argue a more nuanced approach is needed ani*, 21, began dating Noor*, 17, two years ago. They couldn’t see each other during the Covid lockdowns, but when restrictions began to ease, they would meet on the deserted banks of a canal in a

They say everything is bigger in Texas. I don’t know about everything, but the penalties for sexual-related offenses are certainly getting bigger in Texas. Starting next week (9/1/2021) Texas will be the first state to charge persons soliciting prostitution with a felony! HB 1540 now makes soliciting a prostitute punishable by six months to two years in jail! And if

A federal judge ruled Twitter is immune from liability on all but one of two boys’ claims stemming from the posting of sexually explicit videos made of them when they were 13 years old. The Communications Decency Act shields the social media platform from liability on all counts except on their claim under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act that

Kenneth Petty, famous for being married to singer Nicki Minaj, is suing the State of New York to get his name removed from the State’s sex offender registry. The lawsuit, filed yesterday in Federal Court, alleges that Petty was added to the registry without being afforded any opportunity to challenge his placement in violation of his due process rights. There

Last week, the brief in opposition was filed in Louisiana v. Hill, a case the State of Louisiana would like the Supreme Court of the United States to hear. The issues in that case are: (1) Whether a state may require convicted sex offenders to obtain and carry a state identification bearing the words “sex offender” without facially violating the