UK: Inmate’s suicide highlights indifference by guards when it comes to sex offenders

The article details the death of a 64-year-old registered sex offender who killed himself in September 2024 after sustained bullying and violence at HMP Fosse Way. A coroner concluded that the man was “primarily let down by the custodial system,” highlighting how prison staff repeatedly failed to protect him despite clear warnings and documented risks. At the time, the prison

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UK: One in five arrested using facial recognition cameras are registered sex offenders

Greater Manchester Police say the use of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras has led to dozens of arrests in just weeks, including a significant number of registered sex offenders, with one in five arrests involving people on the sex offender register since the technology was deployed 23 times from October 2025. Mounted on police vans, the cameras scan faces in

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Australia: Man arrested for misusing new public sex offender registry

A Queensland man, Brian Allan Smith, has been charged under the new Daniel’s Law for allegedly publishing identifying details from the state’s newly launched public child sex offender register without police authorization. The alleged offense occurring was committed just after the register went live. Daniel’s Law was introduced to give Queenslanders access to limited information about serious child sex offenders

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Canada: Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a national, publicly accessible High-Risk Child Sex Offender Database

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has launched a national, publicly accessible High-Risk Child Sex Offender Database, the first of its kind in Canada, to centralize information on individuals who have been convicted of sexual offenses against children and are assessed as posing a high risk of committing further sexual crimes. This database, created under the High Risk Child Sex

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Scottish National Party seeks Bill to strip “friends of sex offenders” of their titles

The Scottish National Party is pushing a “Removal of Peerages Bill” that would strip people who are friends of people who were registered sex offenders of their noble title. In the UK, nobility is recognized with a title such as Duke, Earl, or Baron. After it was discovered that some people in British nobility remained friends with Jeffrey Epstein even

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Vigilante Cop called “hero” after assaulting and robbing registrant.

A former police officer in New South Wales has been sentenced following the aggravated break-and-enter and robbery of around A$100,000 from the home of a 78-year-old man who he previously supervised for a child sex offense. Sickeningly, the public applauded his action and called him a hero on social media for targeting sex offenders. The officer used his knowledge from

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