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From the Boston Bar Journal Sex offenders are one of the most reviled groups of felons.  In the past few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in laws and regulations governing virtually every facet of their lives.  The policy decisions about how to deal with sex offenders flow largely in one direction: restrict them as much as possible.  This

The below table shows the number of sex offenders registered by state/territory. This information is taken from the Parents for Megan’s Law website and their sources are listed below. Notes: Sex offender counts are as reported by state agencies. * = Sex offender count as reported on state Internet Registry. **=Source: National Center for Missing & Exploited Children ***=Reported as

Sunday’s story by The News-Journal’s Lyda Longa, Frank Fernandez and John Gallas seemed a particularly apt table-setter for Halloween: Two seedy motels in Volusia County cater exclusively to registered sex offenders. The immediate reaction is to recoil in horror as if overturning a rock and discovering a nest of creepy-crawlers. The next is to worry about public safety. However, housing

Registered sex offender Frank Lindsay, left, and lawyer Janice Bellucci are challenging the constitutionality of sex offender ordinances in cities around the state. Photo by Daniel Dreifuss By Joe Nelson, The Sun A crusading civil rights attorney and a registered sex offender have partnered in a legal battle that has prompted dozens of California cities to repeal or revise what

After learning that Seminole County has a similar “no go” law to Brevard’s, we started to look into how arduous this law really is. Attached are two documents that were provided to us by a member in Seminole County (thank you for these). The first is the Seminole County ordinance and the second is a map that is given to

ATLANTA, Oct. 8, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Florida State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (Committee or SAC) has released its report on ex-felon voting rights.  In its report to the Commission, the Florida SAC independently estimates that the total number of persons in the state disenfranchised from voting ranges from 600,000 to 1.2 million persons,