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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (CN) – A Florida city’s sex-offender law faces scrutiny in litigation over whether a wheelchair-bound former doctor, convicted of patient abuse in the 1980s, should be forced out of a hospice due to its proximity to a school. A Palm Beach County court petition filed Aug. 31 claims Jack Ehrhart, a hospice patient with end-stage Alzheimer’s

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – When ex-Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner became a registered sex offender for life last Tuesday, he joined a nationwide list of registered sex criminals that has grown dramatically in recent years to more than 800,000. Even some who have denounced Turner’s six-month jail sentence as too lenient for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman question whether he

Another example where if you’re a reasonably attractive female teacher, you can apparently have sex with a student and get a light sentence. Yesterday, staugustine.com reported a teacher who had sex with an underage student will get less than a year in jail! Now if they had videotaped it and someone had gotten a hold of the video and watched

In the U.S., sexual violence is widespread and deeply disturbing.  Perhaps most troubling, most incidents of sexual violence – be it rape, sexual assault or intimate partner violence – is woefully underreported.  No one really knows how widespread sexual violence is in America. Nevertheless, sexual violence is an all-American indulgence, mostly perpetuated by males against females and children/youths.  Two decades

By David Post September 7 I wanted to add a few words to co-blogger Jonathan Adler’s posting about the recent 6th Circuit decision in Doe v. Snyder, in which the court voided application of the Michigan Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) on the grounds that it imposes retroactive punishment on previously convicted sex offenders in violation of the constitutional prohibition against Ex Post

SOURCE The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has agreed to permanently eliminate on a statewide basis its requirement that registrants post a sign on their residences on Halloween. This agreement is the result of a lawsuit filed in 2015 by California RSOL and two individual plaintiffs in San Diego and Los Angeles. “In the past, CDCR placed registrants