News & Updates

Paying to Be Punished: A Statutory Analysis of Sex Offender Registration Fees is a new article appearing in the Journal of Criminal Justice Ethics that identifies and quantifies the imposition of a registration fee on offenders who are legally compelled to pay these registration costs, regardless of whether they are still currently under community supervision. More than half of the

A recently released man is challenging Ohio’s sex offender parole law as unconstitutional because it forbids him from seeing his 14-year-old son without approval and supervision of his probation officer. In fact, he has only seen his son for 12 hours in the past year. He is not even permitted to possess a photograph of his son. He testified before

A Hennepin County judge has struck down an ordinance in Dayton, Minn. that restricts where sex offenders can live in the community, saying the measure is trumped by state law. In a recent decision, Hennepin County District Judge Susan Robiner declared the Dayton ordinance “void and invalid” because it was expressly designed to conflict with a state law that establishes

The Dobbs Wire has produced a new chart with the latest sex offense registry statistics for every state and Washington DC, along with figures from 2017.  One key indicator continues to increase — the total number on blacklists is now 912,643.  That’s a 4.8% climb in the last 12 months!  42,001 listings have been added since 2017. These government blacklists

Last week, the Florida Supreme Court clarified a case we’ve written about extensively and which might offer relief for some of our members. Two years ago, the court ruled you could not get “dual convictions” for effectively the same course of conduct. Last week the court clarified how to determine whether it’s the same course of conduct. In 2015, in

NARSOL, the National Association for Rational Sex Offense Laws (of which we are the Florida Affiliate) is operating a helpline during the Christmas holiday: The holiday season, which is so loaded with high expectations and wishes and memories, can be stressful for anybody. But it can be especially challenging for persons required to register and for their loved ones. Supervision rules,