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Here’s a twist… A “therapy aide” at the Illinois civil commitment center, where people who have committed a sexual offense are indefinitely confined for “therapy” after they have been released from incarceration, has been arrested on charges of possessing and disseminating child pornography. Investigators from Rushville Police, the Schuyler County Sheriff’s Department, Illinois State Police and the Attorney General’s Internet

The Steuben County (RI)Sheriff’s Office has issued a warning about scammers impersonating law enforcement officials to extort money from registered sex offenders. Sheriff Jim Allard reports that scammers are contacting registered sex offenders claiming to be members of the Steuben County Sheriff’s Office. The fraudulent callers tell victims that arrest warrants have been issued due to missed DNA submissions. The

Two men have been charged with special circumstances murder in the death of a registered sex offender found in an Anaheim motel room. SOURCE

A Texas woman has been charged with abusing a corpse, accused of using a scalpel to castrate the body of a registered sex offender last month, officials said. Charging documents identify two employees of Memorial Mortuary & Crematory at the scene who witnessed the crime. Authorities said the first witness saw Laudermilk stab Rodriguez twice in the groin in the

[NOTE: We will preface the following argument by saying that FAC believes the sex offender registry should be abolished. We do not deviate from this position; however, the reality is that federal law requires the states to maintain a registry. Unless/until we are successful in repealing SORNA, state affiliates are limited in what they can do on the state level.

The recent case highlighted in this Scioto Post article, “Pickaway County Authorities Address Sex Offender Residency Violation,” reveals the unfair consequences of systemic failures. The individual at the center of the story was uprooted from his residence and publicly named in this article due to an error in the Offender Watch System, not because of any deliberate wrongdoing. Despite complying