News & Updates

Washington D.C.’s Metro Board had proposed that anyone arrested on SUSPICION of committing a sex offense or a crime involving a firearm should have a temporary ban from using the stations, trains and buses.  Apparently, the people arrested would be guilty until proven innocent. The bigger issue here, though, is that the board has dropped the proposal as a result

The Tampa Bay Times has been reporting on the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office for targeting and harassing individuals with a criminal background along with family members living with them.  A follow-up story from the Tampa Bay Times reported that the Pasco County Sheriff’s office was also monitoring public school students who had discipline problems in school.  What is coming next

Patch.com, the money-making group that likes to foster the myth that anyone with a past sex offense is out to harm children, started making changes last year after NARSOL called them out: STOP the Red Dots! Even though Patch continued publishing their maps showing where registrants live in certain communities, they also started sharing research, debunking some myths about registrants.

Kansas has started the conversation about making changes to the registry, but they still have a long way to go. Kansas does not have residency restrictions. The good part of the discussion: The Council of State Governments found that requiring an offender to register did not reduce recidivism. The penalty for failing to register is too strong. There are 423

A senior housing complex is relocating a resident, who had been living there since March, simply because he was found to have a past sex offense from 1983.  This man has not been arrested for any additional crimes since his release from prison in 1991.  I have to wonder if the “sex crime” that sent him to prison is still

An investigator with the St. Paul Police Department has been placed on paid leave after federal judges rebuked her for lying to a grand jury concerning a sex trafficking case.  The investigator also lied during a detention hearing. Prosecutors in St. Paul are now trying to determine what to do with other cases that the investigator was involved with, as