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Gov. Ralph Northam of Virginia on Friday ordered the suspension of a policy that allows prison officials to strip-search children after an 8-year-old girl was told to remove her clothes before being allowed to see her father, an inmate. READ MORE An 8-year-old girl visiting her father at a Virginia prison was strip searched last month in violation of state

This one is for those who think “who will know”…The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s allowance of electronic video surveillance equipment as used by law enforcement to catch someone living where he was not registered. In United States v. STEFANYUK, the defendant was charged with failure to register (among other things). To catch him living where

For the second time this year, child sex offenders who live at Wayside Cross Ministries in Aurora were given letters stating they must find a new place to live within 30 days. READ MORE

Yesterday, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill 5 into law. The new law creates tougher criminal penalties for human traffickers. The Toledo Blade described the new law, as “the latest to tackle the state’s human trafficking problem, particularly when it comes to the sex trade. Past laws have increased penalties for traffickers and the “johns” who buy the services they’re

Two days ago, the Union-Recorder in Georgia published a bizarre editorial. The editorial board noted that the state’s sex offender registry system drives people into homelessness and deprived them of counseling and employment opportunities, but laments this fact only insofar as it allows registrants to “fly under the radar” and makes them “more difficult to track.” Georgia’s registry system, according to

Wednesday’s episode of ‘The Dr. Phil Show’ featured a unique phenomenon. Vigilante “pedophile-hunters” are a thing. Dr. Phil described it as a “controversial form of vigilantism that law enforcement is just not in favor of.” What these hunters, who are regular citizens, do is they bait potential child molesters to arrive at a certain location. They then catch them on