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A new federal law requiring the State Department to mark the passports of certain convicted sex offenders is expected to face its first test in federal court on Wednesday. A group of convicted sex offenders has asked a federal judge in Oakland, Calif., to block the measure pending the outcome of a February lawsuit they filed that challenges the law’s

What sounds like a good law in a twenty-second sound bite sometimes turns out to be less clear when one digs below the surface. Such is the case with International Megan’s Law, which President Obama recently signed into law. International Megan’s Law requires those who committed a sex offense against a child to have a permanent stamp placed on their

Licensed Professional Counselor Robert Longo has been vocally opposed to public registries for convicted sexual offenders for years. “I actually met with a group of people in New Jersey and sat across from Megan Kanka’s grandfather,” Longo said. The 1994 murder of 7-year-old Kanka gave rise to the public disclosure of sexual offender registries through what are commonly known as

The results are in from “Operation Predator”, the joint operation of state and federal officers that included sheriff’s offices from 39 counties in Florida, and they are pretty weak. According to Suncoast News, a total of 10,839 face to face verifications were conducted and 134 arrests were made for registration violations. That’s not new sex crimes, just technical violations of

The passages of sexual offender registries have grabbed headlines as steps toward public safety against unchanging “predators” who are being released back into society. The registry laws themselves have cost billions of dollars and generally are passed with overwhelming support. But do they work? “These kind of laws have a limited usefulness, which is they make it difficult for offenders

The legal battle over Pasco County’s strict new sex offender ordinance has taken a strange turn: Two Pasco sheriff’s deputies visited a sex offender at his home on March 15, according to court records, and tried to dissuade him from joining the lawsuit challenging the 2015 ordinance that governs where offenders can live in the county. The lawyer trying to