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A Pennsylvania court recently ruled on whether a homeowner’s association can legally exclude a Tier Three registrant from living in their neighborhood.  The man had lived in the planned community since 1988 and committed sexual crimes in 2015 and 2016.  The association for the neighborhood wanted the man to move elsewhere, so they came up with an amendment that prohibited

The New York Times ran an interesting opinion piece on the harm caused by lengthy prison sentences without the chance of parole. There is a bill in Illinois to bring parole back.  Unfortunately, John Connor, the chairman of the Senate Criminal Law Committee, has not brought the bill up for a vote.  One reason he gave is he “feared the

Three men were sentenced to 15 years to life in prison after pleading no contest this week to killing a registered sex offender during a home-invasion robbery in his Redondo Beach apartment in 2017, authorities said. Whether Marshall’s past played a role in his death was unclear. He was arrested in 2009 after a man told police Marshall drugged and sexually assaulted him in

More than 100 people have been arrested in a Florida human trafficking investigation that focused on victims who might be forced into prostitution, a sheriff said Thursday. The arrests were the culmination of a six-day undercover operation that involved several law enforcement agencies, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said at a news conference. Those arrested were charged with a total

From ACSOL: The purpose of this email is to alert you that the proposed federal SORNA regulations are now moving forward after receiving approval from the Office of Management and Budget.  Below is an article that I have just written about this and I hope you will not only notify the members of your group about this development but also

Kentucky Senator Westerfield says that lawmakers “need to rely on data to form big-picture policy decisions instead of forming policy based on knee-jerk reactions.”  He pointed out that we cannot keep making these same knee-jerk decisions that have made us the country with the highest incarceration rate in the world.  These bad decisions have cost our society a lot of