News & Updates

May is Mental Health Month and today mental health is more important than ever. Our world has been turned upside down and we are all facing anxiety, loneliness, isolation and sadness.  The challenges we face today are impacting, not only our physical health, but also our  mental health. During the month of May, Mental Health America is sponsoring the “Million in

The Philippines Bureau of Immigration announced that an American national previously convicted of rape was barred entry into the country. The 61 year old man was detained upon arrival at Naia airport on May 2 upon his arrival aboard a Philippine Airlines flight from Los Angeles, California. He was returned to the US on the next flight. He was issued

In an opinion issued yesterday in the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, a person forced to register as a sex offender had the registry declared unconstitutional as applied to him, an individual whose offense was committed prior to the date of the registry or certain of it’s provisions. You can read the 58 page, well-reasoned opinion here: t.s._v._psp Pennsylvania had previously

NOTE: As we’ve come to know from Smith v. Doe, Psychology Today is a lay magazine that will pretty much print anything. The following article was published in Psychology Today. Sexual offenders have been despised in all cultures and the thought of release to settled neighborhoods is frightening. Although parameters around released sex offenders are put in place there is

In recent years, the biggest increases in Australia’s prison population have come from people convicted of sexual offences. From 2017-18, this segment of the prison population increased by 10%. The following year, it was up again by 7%. As a corollary, more and more sexual offenders are being released from prisons back to our communities. Understandably, a great deal of

A registered sex offender did not break the law by hiring a 16-year-old boy to work for his landscaping business, the New Hampshire Supreme Court ruled Friday. Edward Proctor was convicted in 2017 under a law prohibiting certain sex offenders from undertaking employment or volunteer services involving the care, instruction or guidance of children. According to court documents, he hired