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Take a guess: What percentage of convicted sex offenders will go on to commit a second sex crime? If you named any figure higher than 5 percent, social science says you’re wrong. But don’t worry, the U.S. Supreme Court doesn’t know the right answer, either. More than 100 court decisions around the country, including from the high court, have cited

Sen Jim Sensenbrenner introduced the Adam Walsh Reauthorization Act yesterday in congress. The Act would seek to reauthorize the Adam Walsh Act for an additional five years. It is notable that while the AWA set requirements for all 50 states, The Justice Department reports that only 17 states have implemented it. Either they disagree with the policy, feel their current

We have been contacted by many members about an unsolicited flyer they received in the mail from a company in Texas that is being marketed as “Clearmycase.com”. Apparently the company is using the Florida Sex Offender registry to solicit registrants, telling them that they “have great news for you!”, “You may be eligible to deregister.” and “you may be eligible

For an “online romance” between two teens, a Virginia prosecutor hit the older one with an armload of charges – 20 counts that add up to centuries. The possible punishment was so extreme that Zachary decided to take the prosecutor’s unreasonable offer to dismiss most of the charges in exchange for a guilty plea to two *felonies,* also a spot

It may run counter to conventional wisdom, but it is exceedingly rare for a person registered as a sex offender to be charged with a new sexual offense in Cumberland County. Of the 75 charged sex crime cases in Cumberland County in 2016, only two were committed by a person listed on the sex offender registry, according to an analysis

Here’s a story that asks the question we’ve been asking for a while. Why is there a registry of sex offenders but no registry of murderers? If someone, 20 years ago, had consensual sex with an underage partner when they were 18, you’d know they were living next door to you. You’d get the flyers, you’d see the police cars