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Here’s a refreshing change of pace: prosecutors are questioning whether a proposed registry measure in Estonia will actually protect children. According to ERR News, Estonia’s prosecutors are skeptical that adding identification photos of people convicted of serious sexual offenses to criminal record checks will meaningfully improve child safety. More importantly, the Ministry of Justice’s own explanatory memo acknowledges that public

While the United States continues to expand sex offender registries and restrictions, what other countries have been able to implement should cause us to ask whether we have our priorities straight. In India, researchers are questioning whether making sex offender registries publicly accessible actually improves public safety. India already maintains a registry accessible to law enforcement, but unlike the United

UNFORTUNATELY during the past fortnight we have continued to see protests outside addresses of registered sex offenders and people wrongly perceived to be sex offenders. Campaigning and peaceful protests are legitimate in a democratic society, and I recognise and uphold the right of individuals to express their views lawfully and to protest peacefully. However, violence, disorder, hate crime, and threatening