News & Updates

House Bill 83 has been introduced in the Florida Legislature. The bill would establish a state-wide information system to track and manage, ” the location, lab submission status, testing, completion, and storage of each kit required to be submitted for testing” and give the victim access to that status and whether the DNA collected from their assault kit matched anyone in

Florida Senate Bill 130, Sponsored by Senator Stewart, seeks to eliminate the statute of limitations for prosecution of a sexual battery against someone younger than 18. The amended language reads, “If a victim is younger than 18 years of age at the time the offense was committed, a prosecution for a violation of s. 794.011 may be commenced at any time.”

REASON.COM: The program raked in $1.5 million from the Department of Justice (DOJ) in its first year. Its mission: to disrupt human trafficking and help the crime’s victims in southeastern Arizona. Instead, Southern Arizona’s Anti-Trafficking Unified Response Network (SAATURN) largely engaged in arresting and prosecuting sex workers, including some suspected of being victims of sexual exploitation. We know this thanks

Excerpts from the SOURCE On Friday, President Trump signed into law the Amy, Vicky, and Andy Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act of 2018 (AVAA). The Act will help victims of what are frequently referred to as “child pornography” crimes obtain full restitution.The Act helps to resolve a thorny legal issue about how to provide restitution to victims — an issue

Enlightenment and a trigger warning in Connecticut:  A day-long event in Connecticut featuring a series of presentations about the sex offense registry proved enlightening and remarkable!  One highlight was the first speaker who gave an overview, taking some trouble to explain the important and little-discussed concept of “moral panic” and the big impact that phenomenon has had, and continues to

You gotta love Guy Hamilton-Smith! Guy is a legal fellow of the Sex Offense Litigation and Policy Resource Center at Mitchell Hamline School of Law, an advocate for reform and author of some of the most classic social media posts (among scholarly stuff, too) I’ve read. In response to a comment on one of his own tweets, which said, “One