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A Kentucky teenager has pleaded guilty to killing a convicted sex offender who lived nearby. The Daily News reports 17-year-old Lance D’artagnan Lear of Auburn entered the plea Monday in Logan Circuit Court to charges of murder and arson. The plea agreement recommends a 20-year sentence. Lear told the judge he went to Jerry Caudill’s home on June 7, 2017

[Note: This is not a political endorsement by Florida Action Committee.] In his April 22nd Town Hall on CNN, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders expressed his unwavering support for the right to vote for all adult citizens. He reiterates that there should be no excluded group in our democracy, and that as soon as you start excluding groups it becomes a slippery

Tomorrow, a senate committee in Alabama will consider Alabama Senate Bill 125, sponsored by Senator Cam Ward. Among other things, the bill would give Courts discretion as to whether or not a child should be subject to registration or notification as a sex offender under certain conditions. Sen. Ward suggested that the bill is intended to “get those kids back

At the bottom of this post are excerpts from this article, which talks about restoration of voting rights and disenfranchisement in general. This issue is particularly pressing in Florida, which is one of the few states that has automatic disenfranchisement of Felons combined with an arduous process for getting their rights restored. Even though the state passed Amendment 4, which

This is an article from The Northern Light Newspaper, in Alaska, that examines the issues that the registry creates. It’s not easy to come to the defense of nonviolent sex offenders. Any lawmaker that considers reforming the excessively-punitive registry will start out on the losing side of the public’s perception. For starters, there is an erroneous assumption that the registry

Finding the disclosures provide information that any law enforcement agent “would love to have,” the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled Indiana’s requirement that sex offender inmates give detailed accounts of their past actions violates the Constitution’s protections against self-incrimination. The 7th Circuit found the INSOMM workbooks asked for detailed and specific information. Offenders are required to reveal the