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The Florida Justice Institute and Weitzner & Jonas, attorneys for registrants on the Florida Sex Offender registry challenging a requirement that they register their “internet identifiers” and the websites they use them, regardless of whether they are on probation or not, have filed a “Notice of Supplemental Authority”, informing the Court of the recently decided US Supreme Court decision in

Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill into law Friday that will require websites that publish mug shots to take them down upon request if the person pictured is not convicted. The new law, which takes effect July 1, also prohibits companies from collecting a fee to remove the mug shots. But Scott declined to sign into law the most controversial

State cannot block access to Social Media !!! More to come. Here is the order: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1194_08l1.pdf

It’s a debate engulfed with concern and emotion in California, as a number of criminal justice leaders and lawmakers – including Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey – work to revamp the state’s sex offender registry system. As it stands, more than 105,000 people are listed as sex offenders in California; however, the state Senate recently approved a proposal

An opinion piece in TheHill makes the valid point that, “[c]ontrary to logic, laws designed to protect children from sexual predators often result in punishing children themselves, with what can be lifelong detrimental consequences. In fact, it is possible for two 16-year-olds in a fully consensual relationship to be charged with abusing each other. This neither protects children nor society from

A registered person in Salesville, Arkansas hung three nazi flags prominently on his property, in protest of a sex offender sign put up by the city in front of their fire department identifying him as a sex offender. Business owners in Salesville don’t like either displays – as neither are good for business. Who wants to drive into the city