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A second convicted child molester has died after he was beaten with a walking cane by another inmate last week at a central California prison, officials said Wednesday. SOURCE

The city of San Diego has agreed to remove a law which the locations where registered sex offenders who are no longer on parole for their crimes can live. Read in NBC 7 San Diego: https://apple.news/AAuRfkfNCRmKyQUHqFz4t8g

Saskatchewan is taking steps to prevent convicted sex offenders from changing their names, making it the first province to refuse name changes based on a criminal record. An order in council approved by cabinet last week will require a criminal record check for people over the age of 18 seeking a name change. “It would not be in the public interest

Serious violent and sexual offenders will no longer automatically be released halfway through their sentences under government plans introduced on Wednesday. If approved by MPs and peers, the new powers will come into force on 1 April and apply to relevant sentences imposed on or after that date. SOURCE  

A Utah judge has upheld the state’s lewdness law after a challenge by a West Valley City woman who is facing charges for being topless in her own home in front of her stepchildren. Third District Judge Kara Pettit denied Tilli Buchanan’s motion to declare the lewdness statute unconstitutional in a ruling filed Tuesday. Buchanan’s attorneys had argued that the

The Fresno Bee reports that ACSOL Attorney Janice Bellucci is suing Fresno County over their sex offender residency restriction that prohibits certain people from living within 3,000 feet of places like parks and schools. Fresno County is apparently the 40th municipality that has faced legal challenge over their ordinance and we all know how that worked out for them! Go