CA: Prison Guards Allowing Registrants to be Attacked and Getting Away With It!

In 2015, the Sacramento Bee wrote that many sex offenders were being killed in California prisons. According to the Associated Press, Male sex offenders made up about 15 percent of the prison population but accounted for nearly 30 percent of homicide victims. Now we have greater insight into how that is able to happen. Five years later the same paper

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OC Register Opinion: It’s time to decriminalize sex work and focus on actual crimes

Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, is a 78-year-old widower who is currently facing federal charges for allegedly paying a 45-year-old legally licensed masseur in Florida to massage an especially delicate part of his body. Months of undercover police work, hidden cameras and multiple raids revealed Florida law enforcement’s obsession with Asian massage parlors, but no evidence of

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CT: Sex offender registry should be based on risk

Whether known to us or not, the intention of the registry was to let us know if a person presents a risk to our families and communities and to enable law enforcement agencies to track, supervise and monitor these registrants. Unfortunately, Connecticut’s registry is not performing these functions. Unlike New York, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and 13 other states, Connecticut’s sex

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Jeffery Epstein’s sex scandal could change NM sex offender registry

[FAC COMMENT: It’s horrible that laws are being proposed based on what happened with Jeffrey Epstein. What happened with him was so rare, aberrant and unusual, you can’t craft legislation based on uncommon situations – that applies to what happened with Adam Walsh, Megan Kanka, Jessica Lunsford, Cherish Perrywinkle, etc] “He was not required to register as a sex offender

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Epidemic of Government Employees Watching Porn on Taxpayer Time

An epidemic of federal employees watching porn on taxpayer time has reached a new low at one agency where a veteran staffer “viewed child pornography on a government computer on multiple occasions,” according to an audit. The unidentified employee worked at the Bureau of Land Management, which operates under the Department of the Interior (DOI) and admitted to investigators from

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