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Ben McJunkin, Univ. of Michigan Fellow and J.J. Prescott, Univ, of Michigan Professor of Law and recognized expert on sex offender registration, put out a new article, “Fourth Amendment Constraints on the Technological Monitoring of Convicted Sex Offenders” The article weighs the balance between the government’s interest in monitoring sex offenders and the often disproportionately invasive and intrusive technology used

SOURCE In a clash that has surfaced in federal courthouses across the country and a recent Houston case, a collection of judges have held it is their duty to set conditions of release for accused sex offenders despite a strict law that limits their discretion. The constitutional conflict hinges on whether judges or lawmakers should decide how these defendants live

The Second District Court of Appeals affirmed the termination of parental rights of a father over his own children. The man is currently incarcerated (he was sentenced to 5 years) and is designated a sexual predator. Nothing in the record indicated that he abused his daughter, but he was convicted of “attempted sexual battery of a minor child over whom

I was shocked by a statistic I heard for the first time at the NACDL conference last month. The United States spends three times more money to incarcerate its citizens than it does on K-12 Education! That’s horrible! Not only does it show how grossly disproportionate our country’s priorities are, but it helps explain why we have such a high

U.S. District Court Judge Mark Bennett (Northern District of Iowa) reluctantly dismissed a challenge to Iowa’s Civil Commitment program. Civil commitment, which is a quasi-incarceration program that allows a state keepsex offenders confined after they serve their prison terms, has been challenged in a number of jurisdictions, most notably Minnesota’s program. Recently, the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals allowed Minnesota’s

A Level 1 sex offender from the Tuscarora Indian Reservation was sentenced Thursday to a year in the Niagara County Jail for not telling authorities one of his social media passwords. ______________, 48, of Susie’s Lane, must register because of a misdemeanor sex conviction in 2004, defense attorney David J. Mansour said. In April, _________ pleaded guilty to a felony