TX: Houston area police department scans license plates for registrants.

This is a concerning story out of Texas. The Memorial Villages Police Department, like many other municipalities, has installed license plate scanners to flag vehicles that travel through their city. Instead of just using the scanners to search for active warrants, stolen vehicles or amber alerts, they use it to flag registrant’s vehicles. According to this article, Agencies choose which

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KY: Will fear mongering make it harder for registrants to live in long term care facilities?

Note that: However, since our report, Kentucky Senator David Yates, D-Louisville, and State Senator Aaron Freeman, R-Indianapolis, are considering draft legislation on full disclosure. This is awful. It’s not in response to anything bad happening, it’s simply in response to this news story. Someone should contact these senators.

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Call To Action – Oppose SB 1732

Click here for printable Call-to-Action.  Contains Senate Committee contact information, talking points, and instructions for your call to action on SB 1732. In Summary, SB 1732: Creates new statute 83.555 “Landlord immunity from liability for leasing to persons with certain criminal records.” While this bill was intended to encourage landlords to rent to persons with past criminal offense, it appears

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Employers should “rethink” using criminal histories in hiring decisions, researchers say

One in three adults in the United States has been arrested at least once, a strikingly high number compared with many other countries. Now, a new study reveals one of the implications of that figure: Nearly half of unemployed U.S. men have criminal convictions, which makes it harder to get a job, according to an analysis of survey data of men

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Wisconsin Supreme Court grapples with ban on sex offender name changes

The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday heard arguments in a case involving whether a transgender woman’s constitutional protections are implicated by the state barring her from changing her legal name to match her gender identity because she was registered as a sex offender as a juvenile. In that case and on appeal, Ella, now 19, charged that requiring her to

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