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The headline in West Virginia’s Metro News reads, “Sex offender registry operation ends with at least seven arrests in WV”  Pretty scary stuff, right? The operation was named “April Showers” and concluded with a press conference from West Virginia State Police Lieutenant James Stout, who said; “There are those out there that try to bend the rules and get around

MILWAUKEE — A federal judge Monday found unconstitutional Pleasant Prairie’s initial ordinance that largely banned registered child sex offenders from residing in the village. The village amended its ordinance three months after the offenders filed suit in June 2016, but U.S. District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller ruled that did not make moot the issues the offenders raised with the first ordinance.

The following is an excerpt from an Associated Press news article: Relying on state education records, supplemented by federal crime data, a yearlong investigation by The Associated Press uncovered roughly 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by students over a four-year period, from fall 2011 to spring 2015. Though that figure represents the most complete tally yet of sexual assaults

As an interesting and coincidental follow up to a post of ours from last week, we wanted to mention that the Washington Post, yesterday, ran a story called, “Student Sex Assaults and How They Vary by State” which gave interesting statistics of elementary and secondary school students who report sexual assaults at schools. According to the story; in Florida “[s]chools

The Florida Action Committee has submitted Public Records Requests, pursuant to Ch. 119 Sec. 1 of the Florida Statutes and the Florida Constitution to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and the Florida Department of Educations. We submitted these requests to find out the number of registered sexual offenders or sexual predators who have been arrested, charged with or convicted