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We’ve sat through numerous Florida House of Representative and Florida Senate Committee meetings this past legislative session and what we kept hearing over, and over again from lawmakers is “we need to protect the children!” It’s a pledge that’s usually delivered in almost theatrical fashion, with the insistence that it must be done at all costs, no matter the consequences

The business of fear doesn’t wear a uniform. It wears a logo, a software interface, a quarterly earnings report, and in states like Florida, it has matured into a fully integrated industry worth billions. A news report that came out today, “Mastery of sex offender registry attracts major investment in Mandeville small business” talks about a Louisiana-based “small business”, Watch

The sex offender registry is supposed to keep kids safe, right? That’s the idea. In reality, across the United States the registry has grown into a massive database with nearly a million names, photos, vehicle descriptions, and an ever-growing list of details the public is expected to somehow sift through and memorize in the name of “safety.” On top of

There is a line between public safety and public hysteria. Increasingly, that line is being erased. In recent weeks, that reality played out in stark and unsettling fashion in the United Kingdom. In Aberdeenshire, a home believed to house a man with a past sexual offense conviction became the focal point of a growing mob. What began as anger quickly

The recent PolitiFact piece examining whether U.S. Senate candidate Michael Whatley (NC) appointed a registered sex offender to a party role is being framed as a political controversy. But it points to something much deeper and far more troubling: the quiet, near-total exclusion of people on the registry from any meaningful participation in civic life, no matter how much time

a little-known unit inside a nondescript government building in Fairfax, Virginia, is running a quieter mission with a singular focus: keeping convicted child sex offenders away from foreign victims before they ever arrive in America. Congress formalized the program in 2016 in International Megan’s Law, giving the center statutory authority, a dedicated facility in Fairfax, Virginia, and a ribbon-cutting ceremony