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The Indian government will soon begin using artificial intelligence-based facial recognition systems at major railway stations, including Mumbai CST, New Delhi, and Ahmedabad, to track individuals listed in the National Database on Sexual Offenders (NDSO). The initiative is part of a broader plan to enhance passenger safety, particularly for women, under the Centre’s Safe City project. The AI system will

Police are warning the public that sharing information from the local sex offenders registry website can result in a three-year prison sentence. Police legal officer Zaheer Ali issued the warning while speaking at the police’s weekly media briefing on May 27. He added the site, which currently has just 36 people listed, should be used only for the sensitization of

Making Jamaica’s sex offender registry public could do more harm than good, warns human rights activist Carla Gullotta. Various incidents, including the sexual assault of two sisters in Old Harbour, St Catherine, by a man who had served time in prison for a previous sexual offence, has once again sparked calls for greater transparency and public access to the registry.

Here’s an interesting case out of the UK (where noticeably a lot of “sex offender” news stories are coming lately). It’s a case that challenges our understanding of justice, rehabilitation, and the labels we assign people. A man was convicted for possessing indecent images of children. A serious, serious crime. However, the unsettling detail is that the man was 18

Britain is considering mandating the use of chemical castration for sex offenders under an overhaul of the justice system aimed at freeing up more space in its overcrowded prisons. One of the first acts of the Labour government in July was to announce plans to release more prisoners early to tackle a crisis of overcrowding in jails which ministers said

A prison officer who delivered rehabilitation courses to sex offenders has been placed on the register himself after being found with child abuse material and extreme pornography including a woman having sex with a donkey. The 46-year-old former HMP Edinburgh officer appeared for sentence at Falkirk sheriff court on Tuesday after pleading guilty at an earlier hearing to communicating indecently