News & Updates

This was the Halloween message on the Lauren’s Kids Facebook Page: It’s surprisingly refreshing to hear a member of the Book family acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of abuse does not come from a stranger (note, we add… much less a stranger on the registry). Could it be the millions of dollars spent villainizing “sex offenders” for the rest of

An Edmonton judge has ruled that the national sex offender registry is unconstitutional as it is “over broad and grossly disproportionate” and violates people of their charter rights. In a recently released decision involving the case of an Edmonton man convicted of two sexual assaults, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Andrea Moen found the Sex Offender Information Registration Act removed

I’m a radio producer working with the New York Times best-selling writer Jon Ronson on a major audio series commissioned by Audible/Amazon. The series will go live early 2017. The series will tell a number of true stories, and we are very keen to shine a light on the issue of young people being put on the sex offenders registry

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The Fifth District Court of Appeals last week reinforced a Florida Supreme Court ruling made last year that found “Double Jeopardy principles prohibit separate convictions based on the same conduct.” In the instant case (Huges v. Florida), the defendant was convicted and sentenced for “soliciting” and “traveling” (to meet a minor) arising from an incident where he received a response

The State Department has modified the Final Rule it published on September 2, 2016, regarding implementation of the International Megan’s Law (IML).  The modification corrects the erroneous statement in the Rule regarding whose passports will bear a “unique identifier” The modification clarifies that “unique identifiers” will be added only to the passports of individuals convicted of a sex offense that involved