Weekly Updates

Weekly Update #16 Dear Members and Advocates, In June of 2018, The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) announced that the total number of people listed on sex offender registries had surpassed the nine hundred thousand mark (900,202 to be exact) and had grown at a rate of 3.3% since the count done six months prior. As of

Weekly Update #15 Dear Members and Advocates, Earlier this month, I began our weekly update explaining why I was glad the Patriots won the Superbowl… because of their owner, Robert Kraft. I wrote about his dedication to criminal justice reform and how he and other celebrities created an alliance to lobby for changes to state probation and parole laws. I

Weekly Update #14 Dear Members and Advocates, Inconsistency is the topic of this week’s update. Laws governing persons required to register as sex offenders are plagued with inconsistencies, which make complying with and enforcing them a challenge. Take, for example, age of consent laws. In some states the age of consent is 16. In others it’s 18. According to NBC

Weekly Update #13 Dear Members and Advocates, This past week, I had to do a double take when reading court filings… Twice! On the 9th, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed an amicus brief arguing that Michigan’s sex offender registration and notification requirements are punishment and just yesterday, U.S. District Judge Keith Watkins wrote an order saying that “sex offenders

Weekly Update #12 Dear Members and Advocates, On Sunday we watched the New England Patriots beat the LA Rams in Superbowl 53. For reasons having nothing to do with football or an affinity for New England, I was rooting for the Patriots. My reason was purely for criminal justice reform. The Patriot’s Owner, Robert Kraft, is among a group of

Weekly Update #11 Dear Members and Advocates, On our site this week we featured some reminders to registrants. There is a distinction between ‘probation violations’ and ‘registration violations’. For one, conditions of your probation need to be complied with in addition to conditions of registration. Also, conditions of probation may differ from one registrant to another, while registration requirements are