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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether North Carolina can ban registered sex offenders from using social media websites and other sites that allow minors to have accounts.   The North Carolina General Assembly enacted a law in 2008 that bans the use of “commercial social networking websites” by registered sex offenders.   Lester Packingham had been convicted six years

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider whether to review several cases at its Friday conference. Among them is a North Carolina case that deals with the First Amendment rights of registered sex offenders and a Virginia case that involves bathroom policy and a transgender student. The North Carolina Supreme Court upheld a state law in November that prohibits registered sex offenders from using Facebook

The below is more News4 Fear-Mongering ——– Law enforcement making sure registered offenders deter trick-or-treaters JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Who will open the front door to the house where your child is trick-or-treating? Law enforcement in every neighborhood wants to make sure that door is not answered by a registered sex offender or sexual predator. In Duval County, there are 2,081

This was the Halloween message on the Lauren’s Kids Facebook Page: It’s surprisingly refreshing to hear a member of the Book family acknowledge that the overwhelming majority of abuse does not come from a stranger (note, we add… much less a stranger on the registry). Could it be the millions of dollars spent villainizing “sex offenders” for the rest of

An Edmonton judge has ruled that the national sex offender registry is unconstitutional as it is “over broad and grossly disproportionate” and violates people of their charter rights. In a recently released decision involving the case of an Edmonton man convicted of two sexual assaults, Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Andrea Moen found the Sex Offender Information Registration Act removed

I’m a radio producer working with the New York Times best-selling writer Jon Ronson on a major audio series commissioned by Audible/Amazon. The series will go live early 2017. The series will tell a number of true stories, and we are very keen to shine a light on the issue of young people being put on the sex offenders registry