News & Updates

The title to this article can be a paraphrase of an old Eagles song or the tagline for a Raid commercial, but unfortunately this saying isn’t being applied to bugs, but to human beings. On Friday, a Missouri Federal Judge ruled that the state’s civil commitment program needs to change. This ruling is the second in a few months (in

The following is an excerpt from an article that announced the 20th anniversary of the Iowa Sex Offender registry. It includes the observations of a police sargent whose job it is to track those on the registry. I think his thoughts are telling: — The registry online, though, announces goals that are more ambitious: Protect the public. Deter offenders. Serve

Not five minutes after putting up the prior post, we read a story out of Orlando, FL in which a spokesperson is quoted as saying the following: “Sexual predators are very active out there unfortunately and they are out for our children,” said Wanda Ford of the Orlando Police Department. Only the article goes on to say that the suspect

An interesting example of the sex offender label being used to “sell stories” We regularly scan news headlines across the state (and in other states) to find news stories that might be interesting to our members. So when we saw this news story come out of Polk County with the title “Polk Sex Offender Arrested for the 14th Time on

Probation and Parole The real story By: Scott Roberson & Robert Wolf   The American Probation and Parole association was first conceived in Houston, Texas during 1974, but did not find it’s place until August 19th 1975 in Louisville, Kentucky as part of the American Congress of Corrections.   The Original idea behind the Probation and Parole system was to

PSA: Attention all Registrants and Family By: Scott Roberson Lets take a moment and look around this country; Government restraint is increasing at an all time high, tensions among the public races are deteriorating rapidly and international relations are not exactly stable. Now you may be asking yourself why I have pointed out these things that are blatantly and obviously