MN: Sex offenders renew legal challenge

MINNEAPOLIS — Lawyers for over 700 people committed indefinitely to the Minnesota Sex Offender Program are asking the full 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling that the program is constitutional. The appeals panel last month reversed a lower court’s ruling that the program violates offenders’ rights because hardly anyone is ever released. Attorneys in

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Publications Disprove Sex Offender Residency Restrictions have any impact on crimes

Weekly Update 2017-02-01 Dear Members and Advocates, In Naples, a petition is circulating to increase the residency restrictions. We know that sex offender residency restrictions do not work and there is a wealth of studies out there proving this fact, including: *   No Place to Call Home: Rethinking Residency Restrictions for Sex Offenders<http://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/bctw36&div=14&id=&page=> *   Hidden challenges: Sex offenders legislated into

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NC Sex Offender Lawsuit Getting Lots of Media Attention

North Carolina Registrants have filed an Ex Post Facto lawsuit against the State challenging the enhanced punishments imposed on its citizens AFTER their offenses were committed. It’s a challenge that has WON in Michigan, even at the Federal appellate level and it is a challenge that we in Florida are currently raising funds to bring in our State. http://www.wcnc.com/news/crime/lawsuit-nc-sex-offender-law-goes-too-far/392672123

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