SCOTUS Legislation Update on Sex Offender Cases

Weekly Update 2017-07-19 Dear Members and Advocates, When a court decision is entered, it’s sometimes hard to predict how far-reaching its impact will extend. Case in point; the Supreme Court’s decision in Packingham, which ruled that a State can’t block registrants from social media. As an organization that advocates for registrants and one that happens to be involved in an

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NY Candidate Proposes “Mentally Ill Registry”

A New York political candidate is proposing a new registry, similar to the sex offender registry, only it will be for the mentally ill. Republican J.C. Polanco called for “mandating that state hospitals and correctional facilities inform the city immediately when anyone is released from their institutions who is suffering from severe mental illness so that our neighbors, our communities

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