Reforming Florida’s Sex Offender Registry Laws
A recently passed law is funding Arizona’s first-ever Sex Offender Management Board, which is aimed at getting justice for victims and preventing cases in the future. The board will be made up of 25 people who are experts on sexual abuse and deviancy. It will include psychologists, law enforcement officials, and victims’ rights representatives. They will make legislative recommendations regarding
Read moreFollowing an appeal from a convicted sex offender, the Village of Forestville is revising an ordinance related to the distance convicted sex offenders may reside from “where children are known to congregate.” The village’s ordinance, adopted in December 2007, prohibits a convicted sex offender from living within 2,500 feet of any school, licensed day care center, park, trail, playground, place
Read moreWhen law enforcement officers with the Bossier Sheriff’s Office and the Shreveport District Office of Probation and Parole brought attention to a convicted sex offender’s offer of candy to children at a school bus stop in Bossier Parish, it led to an addition to state law. House Bill 111, passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, went into
Read moreFive men were arrested at Oklahoma City parks for violating the law prohibiting sex offenders from entering safety zones around schools, even though all incidents occurred after park hours when it was dark. Three of the arrests occurred on July 31 at Scissortail Park. All three men, who are transients, face charges for entering the safety zone as sex offenders.
Read morePennsylvania Representative announced plans to introduce legislation that would address a gap in the Commonwealth’s child protection laws. The bill, authored by Rep. Aaron Bernstine (R-Butler, Lawrence), aims to close a loophole that allows registered sex offenders to become parents through surrogacy. While the current law prohibits registered sex offenders from adopting or fostering a child, surrogacy arrangements are not
Read moreIn July 2025, residents of Decatur Township, Pennsylvania, packed into a township supervisors meeting, many of them angry and afraid. Rumors had spread on Facebook that a halfway house for sex offenders had quietly opened on Hoffman Road. The idea ignited a storm of fear and outrage, stoking familiar anxieties that such facilities bring danger, devalue property, and ruin the
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