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The SCOTUS was supposed to consider two important cases in the conference held last Friday. Boyd v. Washington (Whether the requirement of frequent, in-person reporting renders an offender-registration law punitive, such that applying the law retroactively violates the ex post facto clause) and Prison Legal News v. Jones. Both cases have been rescheduled. No new cases of relevance to sex

A pleasantly surprising story out of Virginia – a news report about a family with 5 small children who can’t find housing because the father’s 20 year old conviction for a sex offense. What makes the story pleasantly surprising is that it paints a humane picture of the registrant and even asks the community to help him find housing. It

A bill that was written about earlier this week has passed and the island country of Bermuda will become the latest country to have a sex offender registry. What’s interesting, is the country’s Attorney General, who indicates in this Royal Gazette article, used empirical evidence in their decision making about their registry. Kathy Lynn Simmons, the Attorney-General, explained: “A public

From NARSOL: The First Step Act, now pending in the U.S. Senate, has been described as “a bipartisan-supported bill,” “an important but…modest first-step” toward desperately needed criminal justice reform. It is supported by legislators of both parties and by the President. Modest is correct; the bill would only apply to 1.5 percent of those in federal prisons, and the federal prison

The headline from this story on WFLA reads, “Sex offender Santa seeking Christmas party employment arrested”, but the headline doesn’t tell anything close to the story. The person required to register, in this case, had committed his offense in 1993 (25 years ago) and was no longer on probation. As such, there’s no prohibition in the Florida Statutes on his being