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ATLANTA — A sex offender rights group is accusing the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office of overstepping Georgia’s sex offender registration laws. In a letter sent this week to Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren, the North Carolina based National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) claims deputies are “imposing invented requirements not contained in Georgia law.” READ MORE READ ALSO

January 29, 2020 –The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) has sent official correspondence to Sheriff Neil Warren of Cobb County, Georgia, reminding him that the sex offender registry is a civil regulatory scheme and not a vehicle for further punishment. The letter also calls on him to cease and desist from imposing unlawful registration requirements or else

After spending a full 25-year sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit, a Bronx, New York, man was exonerated by the first prosecutorial conviction review unit on the East Coast. Rafael Ruiz was convicted in 1985 for sexually assaulting a girl in East Harlem. Ruiz, then 25, was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison

Can anyone tell me why this is even a thing? Isn’t spiritual growth and repentance something society would want from someone who has sexually offended? To make that and the exercise of one’s religious beliefs more of a challenge to persons on the registry, a bill (House Bill 1922) proposed by Rep. Patsy Hazlewood would require the registrant to provide

Civil Rights Attorney Valerie Jonas is last year’s recipient of the Jeanne Baker Humanitarian Award. She received her award last night before an audience at the Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, the city in which she had sex offender residency restrictions declared unconstitutional. Val has been fighting for human rights for more than three decades and has dedicated her present

On Nov. 18, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister held a press conference to announce the results of Operation Trade Secrets II, a six-month sting that purported to target human traffickers. Flanked on one side by a placard of mugshots and on the other by a video of deputies handcuffing men and women in a hotel, Chronister told reporters that undercover