CO: Controversial Bill Surrounding Sex Offenders To Get First Committee Hearing

The council says the bill would allow the parole board to release people convicted of violent sex crimes as long as they’re signed up for community-based treatment and are considered a manageable risk. It would also prevent treatment providers from limiting an offenders contact with children without a court order and would create a new risk-based sex offender registry. A

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Jeffrey Epstein guards get deferred sentence, no prison time.

The two guards who fell asleep and then fudged their reports the night Jeffrey Epstein, perhaps the most high-profile inmate in the BOP who was supposed to be on “suicide watch”, apparently killed himself, were given a deal. Deferred prosecution and no jail time. Epstein was held in an observation cell, surrounded by windows, where lights were left on and

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En Banc Seventh Circuit Hears Challenge to Indiana Sex Offender Registry Law

A three-judge panel previously struck down the law, finding registry requirements for sex offenders moving to Indiana are unconstitutional. Indiana argued before the full Seventh Circuit on Thursday that state law does not place unfair registration requirements on sex offenders moving to the Hoosier State. At issue is a provision of the Indiana Sex Offender Registry Act requiring people convicted

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Mis-Application of the “Sex Offender” label for publicity’s sake

Weekly Update #151 Dear Members and Advocates, I felt nauseous the second I read the headline. “Florida sex offender tries to abduct 11-year-old girl at bus stop” was the title of the article in the NY Post. The story began, “An 11-year-old girl fought off a knife-wielding would-be kidnapper at her bus stop Tuesday morning… The 30-year-old unidentified sex offender

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