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Both the U.S. House and Senate have signed off on a bill to brand registered sex offenders as such on their passports and require federal officials to notify foreign governments whenever certain offenders intend to travel there. The bill is now on its way to President Obama; it’s unclear whether he’ll sign. If he does, it will be “the first time

I’ve been trying to help a sex offender I’ll call George to find a home plan in preparation for his release from prison in March. I’ve known this man for 10 years. His crimes are computer crimes and stupidity. Will he re-offend? Of course I don’t know. I do know it’s statistically unlikely that he would molest a child. But

Target of legislation is sex-traffickers; critics call it a ‘scarlet letter.’ Legislation requiring the State Department to identify registered sex offenders with a special mark on their passports received final passage in the House of Representatives on Monday night and went to President Obama’s desk. The White House has not indicated whether President Obama plans to sign the bill. Called

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International Megan’s Law, a bill cobbled together by House Rep. Chris Smith of New Jersey and his counterpart in the Senate, Ed Royce, has now passed both Houses of Congress and is on its way to President Obama for his signature.   The notification of foreign governments element of IML simply codifies and expands practices already in place and exercised

Southwestern Law School professor Catherine Carpenter put it bluntly in her new research paper, “Throwaway Children: The Tragic Consequences of a False Narrative.” “Truth be told,” she wrote, “we are afraid for our children and we are afraid of our children.” Carpenter’s paper explains why it’s wrong to automatically place underage perpetrators of sex crimes on the sex offender registry. This