The Sad Consequences of Frivolous Legislation regarding Sex Offender Registration

Weekly Update #125 Dear Members and Advocates, I’m worried about my memory. I’m starting to forget things and I imagine it will get worse as I get older. I’m not talking about the momentary lapses like calling my kid by my dog’s name or the innocent oversights, like forgetting to pick up my in-laws at the airport. Those are harmless.

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A Scout for Teen Athletes Tries to Shed a Sex Offender Stigma

Are there some breaches of trust one can never come back from? Or is there a point when the stigma associated with a crime does more harm than good? These questions have renewed attention as our society scrutinizes its relationship with the criminal justice system. For the Phoenix high school basketball community, they are concrete ones. Justin Vargas, 36, is a fixture

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How Do We End Sexual Violence?

For this edition, Lyra Walsh Fuchs spoke to Judith Levine and Erica R. Meiners, the authors of The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence (Verso). There are nearly a million people on the sex offender registry, a number that has increased alongside rising rates of incarceration in the United States—even as reported rates of sexual violence have been falling

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Michigan: Ready to go another round?

By now we should all be familiar with what’s taking place in Michigan. After having its registry declared unconstitutional all the way to the 6th Circuit (and then the Supreme Court, which denied Certiorari), the state’s legislators have been trying to craft legislation that would pass constitutional muster. They have been trying unsuccessfully. Their latest attempt will be House Bill

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