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An Ohio state lawmaker has proposed banning sexting for those 18 and under. Underage sexting is already illegal, but Senate Bill 239, introduced Wednesday, carves out a legal definition that makes it a less-serious offense than other crimes involving sexual images of minors. The bill’s sponsor, state Sen. Nathan Manning, a North Ridgeville Republican, said his proposed law is meant to

A 63-year-old man facing charges of lewd and lascivious molestation and possession of child pornography could go free after a judge found that Pinellas sheriff’s detectives and Pinellas-Pasco prosecutors lied to obtain a search warrant in the case. The Tampa Bay Times obtained a Nov. 1 order written by Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge William Burgess III in which he found law

A federal judge on Tuesday knocked down a city ordinance that severely restricts where registered sex offenders can live in San Diego. The ruling deals a final blow to a law that hasn’t been enforced for the past decade due to similar legal challenges but has nonetheless remained on the books. The lawsuit filed by two unnamed registered sex offenders

The West African Country of Nigeria is planning to launch a sex offender registry. According to them, they plan to make the registry public, but also according to them, they acknowledge that the purpose of the registry is to “name and shame” those who are on it.

South Florida’ ABC affiliate Local10 visited the latest sex offender encampment in Miami-Dade. WATCH THE VIDEO

Rocky Ali Beamon, who had killed three people, two of which were persons on the registry with whom he was incarcerated, was sentenced to death this past Friday. He was in prison for a murder charge, when in 2012 at Apalachee Correctional Institution in Jackson County, he killed his cellmate who was on the sex offender registry. in 2017 he