News & Updates

This is an article from The Northern Light Newspaper, in Alaska, that examines the issues that the registry creates. It’s not easy to come to the defense of nonviolent sex offenders. Any lawmaker that considers reforming the excessively-punitive registry will start out on the losing side of the public’s perception. For starters, there is an erroneous assumption that the registry

Finding the disclosures provide information that any law enforcement agent “would love to have,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled Indiana’s requirement that sex offender inmates give detailed accounts of their past actions violates the Constitution’s protections against self-incrimination. The 7th Circuit found the INSOMM workbooks asked for detailed and specific information. Offenders are required to reveal the

Last week a decision came out of Florida’s First District Court of Appeals that should provide some peace of mind to those unable to afford the cost of treatment and supervision. The appellant was convicted of violating his probation for (1) failure to comply with his electronic monitoring, (2) failure to comply with sex offender treatment, and (3) failure to

Last week, the New Jersey attorney general’s office announced the arrest of sixteen individuals as part of “Operation Home Alone”. These individuals, which included a police officer, minister a teacher and other professionals were allegedly speaking with people they believed to be minors via social media sites, who turned out to be police posing as minors. According to the news

According to Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG), persons required to register as sex offenders are now being denied entry into the Bahamas. Add Bahamas to the growing list of countries coerced by the United States to turn away people.