Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
Residents of Thornton, Colorado raised some valid points about a proposed residency restriction covering school bus stops. One resident pointed out (as is the case with most sex offender residency restrictions) there’s no delineation to show what’s “within 1,000 feet,” or how anyone would know where a “designated” school bus stop is. “If the city does not publish an accurate
Read moreA Texas man just got 25 years for a failure to register an address change. “In 2015 this defendant went to prison for six years for a failure to register as a sex offender,” said First Assistant Nathan Young. “He knew what was expected of his registration when he was released. His blatant disregard in complying with a service that
Read moreAmanda LaRue, a “concerned parent” from Owasso, Oklahoma, spoke to News Channel 8 about a transient registered sex offender near her home. “He loads his car up every night, goes to the gas station, sleeps, and is back home,” LaRue said. “That’s how he’s skirting this law, of being a transient, and not having a permanent address. It’s because his
Read moreThe Queensland government will introduce legislation to parliament today to establish a sex offender registry, but unlike it’s US counterpart the legislation will include safeguards aimed at stopping vigilantism and prohibiting people from targeting offenders on the registry. Rather than blasting registrants information out there publicly, and allowing others to scrape the database and create their own copycat websites, the
Read moreThe Queensland government will this week table legislation creating Australia’s first public child sex offender register. The Queensland legislation, to be known as Daniel’s Law, was named in honour of Sunshine Coast teenager Daniel Morcombe, who was abducted and murdered by a sex offender more than two decades ago. But will this new legislation actually work to make children (and
Read moreRobert Letham attacked XXXX XXXX after sneaking up behind him as he read a newspaper while both were in HMP Perth. Explaining the background to the slashing, defence advocate Kevin Jarvis stated: “He tells me that what brought this incident about is that (Sinclair) was known to be a sex offender – he knew that through news articles and others.
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