News & Updates

One of the bills we were watching carefully and particularly concerned about was Senator Lauren Book’s SB 1558, which would create a “rebuttable presumption of dangerous” to one’s own child if the parent had a CP offense in their history. As of Friday, the bill was reported as, “Indefinitely postponed and withdrawn from consideration.” Special thanks to all those who

A new bill in Missouri seeks to slap anyone who was found guilty of a sex offense after August 2006 to wear a GPS ankle bracelet for life. Thankfully the attorney quoted in the following article recognizes the law will be challenged. More can be found here: http://www.ozarksfirst.com/news/defense-attorney-warns-against-sex-offender-tracking-device/707907181.

MILWAUKEE — A group of lawmakers says Wisconsin’s sex offender registry is watered down with teenagers who have no purpose being on it, and they’ve proposed legislation to carve out a so-called “Romeo and Juliet” exemption. Under the bill, teenagers between the ages of 15 and 18 years old who have consensual sex would no longer be put on the

In January, Broward County car owners who received their auto tag renewal notices also got a special message from Lauren’s Kids, the nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing child sex abuse and founded by freshman State Sen. Lauren Book. Inside the envelopes, colorful flyers bearing Lauren’s Kids logo wished vehicle registrants a happy birthday while segueing into an ominous stat: “Yet

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina can continue to require some teens convicted of serious sex crimes to appear on the state’s public sex-offender registry and wear an electronic monitor for the rest of their lives, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. A boy from Spartanburg County who was 15 when he sexually assaulted a 5-year-old boy and ended up

The headline in West Virginia’s Metro News reads, “Sex offender registry operation ends with at least seven arrests in WV”  Pretty scary stuff, right? The operation was named “April Showers” and concluded with a press conference from West Virginia State Police Lieutenant James Stout, who said; “There are those out there that try to bend the rules and get around