News & Updates

Just before the deadline, as expected, Michigan filed a petition asking the US Supreme Court to review Doe v. Snyder.   So far this effort to get help from the Supreme Court hasn’t made the news; the legal papers are not yet online.  If you want to see the state’s petition, drop me a line.   Doe v. Snyder is an

Dr. Donna Vandiver, Dr. Jeremy Braithwaite and Dr. Mark Stafford wrote the book on sex offenders. Literally. A new textbook written by these academics, titled “Sex Crimes and Sex Offenders: Theory, Research and Realities”, will be released later this month. The textbook, which was written with students in mind, sets out to correct a lot of the misconceptions and “commonsense”

The State of Washington Office of Financial Management’s Sex Offender Policy Board has recommended exempting their sex offender registry from public disclosure. Among the other recommendations in the 168 page report is the following: “In December 2015, the SOPB issued a unanimous recommendation that sex offender registration information should be exempt from public disclosure (that RCW 4.24.550 is/should be an

As if State Statutes were not enough, when searching for housing registrants have to worry about County ordinances that may further restrict housing. If they survive the County ordinance, they then need to check to see if their city has passed its own ordinance creating more restrictions. Now, as if all that were not enough, an Arizona law allows Homeowners

A Nebraska Judge has had enough. After not one, but two State Probation Officers came before him for what he called “grievous violations” of trust in committing crimes themselves, he’s decided to “send a signal to every damn state probation office employee that you’re going to get hammered” if convicted of similar crimes. Senior U.S. District Judge Richard Kopf sent