Misleading Story, “Teen girl abducted by registered sex offender in Texas”

Daily, we scan headlines for news relating to “sex offender issues”, both good and bad, so we can keep our members apprised of anything that might impact them. We were alarmed to see a headline out of Texas, saying a girl had been abducted by a registrant. Naturally that’s every parent’s worst nightmare, but it’s our worst nightmare too, because

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IL: One registrant per address law cannot stand

A win in Illinois! A Court last week found that a law that prevented more than one person required to register from living at the same address cannot stand as it is being applied by the defendants (Illinois Department of Corrections) against persons required to register. The statute precludes convicted sex offenders on mandatory supervised release from living “at the

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COME ON!!! Registrants shouldn’t be bouncers or go near conservation areas?

I’ll end this week by sharing a bit of ridiculousness that is being thrown around the water cooler. I’ve said this before, but it seems like hysterical people and political opportunists are running out of ideas for “sex offender laws” and really grasping at straws sometimes. I can understand a person required to be registered as sex offender prevented from

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MT: Man sues over ‘outdated’ sodomy convictions, sex offender requirement

A man is taking Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen to federal court Tuesday for requiring people to register as sex offenders for past sodomy convictions. XXXXX XXXXX, 45, was convicted when he was 19 years old under an Idaho law that criminalized sex acts associated with homosexuality, according to the lawsuit he filed in December in U.S. District Court for

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