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The Dobbs Wire:  Do we need the sex offense registry?  Counting registrants, family members and significant others, the number of people directly impacted by sex offense registration laws in the U.S. is estimated at several million.  Every state has had a registry for at least 25 years and politicians continually push for  harsher registration requirements.  These are all good reasons

Lately, Colorado has been having a conversation on how the registry needs to be changed using research-based policies, and now we see that Boulder is attempting to look not only at solutions for the homeless but have included people on the registry in the discussion. Yes, registrants are not eligible for housing assistance or supportive housing, but I am focusing

In a decision out of the Ohio Supreme Court today, the Court ruled that ‘Sierah’s Law,’ (creating a violent offender database, which became effective March 20, 2019) does not violate Ohio’s constitutional prohibition on retroactive statutes, when retroactively applied to an offense that occurred before March 20, 2019. Interestingly, the Court analogized the violent offender database to the sex offender

A judge in Florida this week sentenced a 44-year-old man to spend the remainder of his life behind bars for the brutal murder of his former prison cellmate—a convicted child sex offender—whose throat he crushed. “Inmate Carruthers strangled Inmate Kever and forcefully stomped his throat area that led to his death,” arresting documents reportedly stated. “Inmate Carruthers showed no regard for

This document was put out by the The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at the beginning of this year, but it is very useful and filled with valuable information. You are encouraged to read and share it with others and apply the reasoning and research to your arguments when seeking abolition of the registry. comments-to-ali-on-draft-model-penal-code-on-sex-offender-registries-january-2021-.pdf

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mt., wants to ensure this doesn’t happen again and on Monday re-introduced the Denying Pensions to Convicted Child Molesters Act. The bluntly titled bill would automatically stop, upon conviction, tax dollars from going to pay for the retirement of child predators who worked for the federal government. Daines previously introduced the bill in May 2019 and again