News & Updates

This story out of Texas, reports that a 14-year-old junior high student is facing the possibility of life as a registered sex offender after being arrested for having sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend. He’s a seventh grader, she’s a sixth grader. They are boyfriend-girlfriend. The sex was consensual. The State of Texas does have a “Romeo and Juliet” exemption, but

It’s a new law that’s causing people to question whether they are hearing it correctly or whether it’s “fake news” or not. Missouri passed a law that’s putting all sex offenders on GPS for life. Even those whose sentences don’t order it. Clearly they are not applying it retroactively, right? WRONG! It’s being applied to offenses that took place on

The new price is a lifetime ankle bracelet or get hit with a felony:  For those who thought they had “paid the price” for their wrongdoing – Missouri just tore up the deal.  Now some with sex offense records are learning they must wear and pay for (current price $30/month) GPS ‘ankle bracelets’ for *life* — under threat of felony

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. – “Ok cool, can we make love in the shower?” “Can we use cooking oil for lube? I heard that works too.” “What happens is up to us, we own our own destiny.” Real messages, sent from middle aged men in Okeechobee and St. Lucie County to police officers posing as 15- year-old girls. The two

High-priced ‘junk science’ in Colorado:   A Denver Post investigative reporter, Christopher Osher, has a  very interesting and detailed report about Colorado’s “aggressive” use of polygraph tests on persons convicted of sex offenses.  Considered unreliable *junk science,* the results nonetheless help determine the fate of those subjected to the tests.  Colorado is not alone;  an estimated 70% of states are using

Sessions’ office releases memo to all 94 US attorneys calling for reversal of Holder-era policy Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ office sent out a letter late Thursday to the nation’s federal prosecutors instructing them to pursue the most serious charges possible against most criminal suspects. The move will send more people to prison and for much longer terms by triggering mandatory