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The arguments from experts who contend that residency restrictions such as those sought by Dawn Knull don’t work focus on concerns that the restrictions isolate sex offenders and make it more difficult for them to be rehabilitated. “It is a bad idea from the perspective of public safety,” said Mary Catherine Roper, deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties

Keeping an eye on sex offenders for life, it’s a new law for Missouri and this now includes first-time offenders. But some say it violates the constitution. “I don’t expect anyone to have a lot of sympathy for me. I am on the sex offender list for a reason and it is because of what I did,” said a sex

Wayne Logan is a law professor at Florida State University. His recent work, “Reforming Registries” contains recommendations for reforming SORs so that they are more effective. A copy can be read here: https://poseidon01.ssrn.com/delivery.php?ID=337087112022019118069088116094109096026053039083011038109066121093105092025011029088117005020100112003037103020004070104118124017058004084007084111087112068093085073021100017123095006096106085120083099099071094024123084124081084006075066122089064&EXT=pdf  

It has become a matter of course. If you received a conviction for soliciting and traveling to meet a minor, your conviction for BOTH can be overturned under the principal of double-jeopardy, if both charges arise from the same course of conduct. Last week the 1st DCA remanded another case, stating; “in accordance with the mandate from the supreme court,

The following was submitted by a Member: I read an interesting piece on the latest NARSOL newsletter. It was about a report on recent studies of sex offenses in NYC that were pretty much typical of what we’re used to. But then the NARSOL piece reveals it’s from a report published in 1944. The takeaway seems to be that not

Stranger Danger:  National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) had a big media hit the other day.  On Good Morning America, NCMEC pushed to retire the slogan, ‘stranger danger.’  Those words have drilled fear and moral panic deep into millions of people, especially parents and children.  The phrase has also drawn criticism over the years from various quarters.  NCMEC’s