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A convicted child sex offender who removed his GPS ankle monitor and disappeared from his job at an Amazon warehouse was found dead weeks later in a Southern California riverbed. According to Los Angeles Magazine, 69-year-old Merle Wakefield disappeared on September 25, and his body was discovered on October 19. He had spent decades in prison and a state mental

Sometimes, even local governments begin to recognize that there is a difference between protecting public safety and imposing restrictions that make it unnecessarily difficult for people to rebuild their lives. According to the Herald Times Reporter, Two Rivers, Wisconsin, has been considering changes to its sex offender residency ordinance. The proposed changes would replace the city’s existing residency provisions with

Tazewell County, Virginia, has adopted a policy requiring nonprofits receiving county funding to certify that they neither employ registered sex offenders nor have registrants serving on their boards of directors. According to WVNS-TV, the policy followed a complaint about an organization that received county donations and used county facilities despite having a registrant on its board. County Administrator Eric Young

It’s that time of year again. Halloween is approaching, and the Izard County Sheriff’s Office in Arkansas has done something very irresponsible. They published a list of addresses where registered citizens live. They say it’s to warn parents not to trick or treat at those addresses, but realistically, what exactly do they think people are going to do with this