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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court today ruled SORNA Unconstitutional as applied to an individual whose offenses predate it’s enactment. The Court found: 1) SORNA’s registration provisions constitute punishment notwithstanding the General Assembly’s identification of the provisions as nonpunitive; 2) retroactive application of SORNA’s registration provisions violates the federal ex post facto clause; and 3) retroactive application of SORNA’s registration provisions also

Hypocrite, former Speaker of the House and second-in-line to the presidency, Dennis Hastert has been released from prison after about a year of incarceration. Hastert was convicted of banking crimes for having not reported close to a million dollars of cash withdrawn and used as “hush money” payments to victims, who he sexually abused while he was a school wrestling

California’s cluttered sex offender registry is too large to be effective and must be reformed if it is to be of any use to law enforcement. One of only four states to require universal lifetime registration for all sex offenders regardless of their offense or risk of re-offending, California now has more than 100,000 people on its sex offender registry.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA (WLOS) —  A recent Supreme Court ruling on sex offenders is already having an impact in the mountains after the justices determined sex offenders should be able to possess social media accounts. “We did have a pending case here in Henderson County where the alleged violation was that the defendant had set up a social media account

The Supreme Court hit a home run in First Amendment terms with its unanimous decision to strike down a North Carolina law that banned convicted sex offenders from accessing commercial social networking sites used by minors for personal profiles or the like. But the court’s decision in Packingham v. North Carolina was more than a free-speech victory. The decision also