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The City Council of Grover Beach, in a vote of 5 to 0, voted on September 8 to repeal a city ordinance that prohibited California sex offenders (“registrants”) from living within 2,000 feet of any school, park, or day care center. The action follows a lawsuit filed on June 17 by California Reform Sex Offender Laws President and attorney Janice

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This was a big story this past week. Two teens are dating. Both are under 18. They privately exchange selfies of each other and are now are themselves charged as adults for exploiting minors (themselves). If it sounds like we’re making this up… watch this: So all this prompts a question… If “hands-on” offenses are the more heinous crimes and

This story out of Jacksonville is the reason parents are being misinformed and a false sense of security is being created by the sex offender registry. Apparently, there have been two separate instances of child molestation in one trailer park committed this year. The tragic occurrences were committed by two unaffiliated men, neither of which were registered sex offenders! In

It’s a chilling image: the sex predator skulking in the shadows of a swing set, waiting to snatch a vulnerable child. Over the past two decades, that scenario has led to a wave of laws around the country restricting where people convicted of sex offenses may live — in many cases, no closer than 2,500 feet from schools, playgrounds, parks

Onerous sex offender registration laws have pulled together unlikely alliances. Victim advocates have begun standing up for sex offenders in litigation and legislative battles across the country. Chris Dornin, a former New Hampshire State House reporter, wrote in an article for Corrections Magazine detailing the efforts of Cleveland and Texas rape crisis centers toward dismantling Ohio’s residency restriction law. The