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This is a follow up to the story we posted yesterday: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/ok-5-men-arrested-at-okc-parks-for-violating-sex-offender-safety-zone-laws/ At least one news outlet got it right. While many outlets sensationalize stories like this, KOCO 5 News took a different approach. Instead of stoking fear, they acknowledged the deeper issue; that residency restrictions often leave people on the registry with nowhere to go, forcing them into homelessness.

Just today, we sent out our Weekly Update talking about how sex offense laws aren’t applied the same across the board. How people with money, power, or political connections tend to have a very different experience than the average person. And right on cue, this story out of Utah hits the headlines. According to a recent Newsweek article, Utah Senate

44-year-old Terry Gleason of Chamberlain acknowledges the uphill battle he faces. “I am an unknown,” Gleason said Saturday. “Not very many people know me, and so it is a long shot, but I feel at the same time, some of the other candidates are also long shots. I think I have just as much to give to South Dakota as

Great article in the NY Times today about civil commitment. Here’s an excerpt: In 1996, Rodney Roberts was working two jobs, one as a paralegal and another as a salesman in a men’s store, and living in a Montclair, N.J., apartment with his young son, when a teenager was sexually assaulted in Newark. Seventeen days later, officers with the East

Yesterday, President Donald Trump announced the return of the Presidential Physical Fitness Test with the help of some big names in sports. Among them, Lawrence Taylor! Yes, that Lawrence Taylor. NFL legend, Hall of Famer, and, yes, a registered sex offender for soliciting an underage prostitute. Here’s a nice photo of them in the Roosevelt Room. L.T. at the microphone

Incarceration is challenging for most individuals, but it poses unique and often severe hardships for those with mental health conditions such as Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). For inmates with sex offense convictions, the prison environment is particularly hostile, marked by frequent bullying, social isolation, and even physical violence. When an individual has both ASD and a sex offense conviction, the