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When lawmakers say they’re acting to keep kids safe, most of us want to believe the solution must be a good one. But public safety policy shouldn’t be judged by its intentions. It should be judged by whether it actually works. Let’s consider a recent ordinance passed by Middleburg Heights City Council in late February. The law, which mirrors one

Every so often, a story pops up that reminds us something important: public opinion is not as one-sided as some would like us to believe. Recently, a local news outlet, KMPH FOX26 News in Fresno, California, ran a public poll asking a simple but controversial question: Should someone who is a registered sex offender be allowed to run for public

More than a decade ago, a Scotland man committed an offense involving CSAM and served his sentence. He completed his time, and like anyone else leaving the criminal justice system was supposed to move forward with his life. But for people labeled as sex offenders, the punishment never ends when the sentence does. Instead, it follows them everywhere. When he

We want to begin by stating we are not calling out or shaming the offenders; our purpose for sharing these stories is to illustrate that while all of this focus and all these laws are misdirected, studies show that it is actually people closest to the victims and those in positions of trust who wind up being the perpetrators of

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When lawmakers name bills after victims of tragedy—such as Megan’s Law or the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993—public support surges, but this emotional boost may come at the expense of sound policymaking, according to research published in the journal Psychology, Public Policy, and Law. The study examined whether eponymous bills—those named for victims—receive more public backing than identical