Protecting your children from "uniformed predators"

The term “uniformed predators” was used in an interesting online blog post referring to police who over-zealously investigate common teenage misbehavior. The post referred to a recent case out of Iowa, where a 14 year old girl had texted pictures of herself which at best could be described as “suggestive” but by no means were pornographic or even nude. When

Read more

Sex-offender registry adds costs without protecting public

COLUMBIA, SC Last month, a new chapter was written in one of America’s oldest real-life murder mysteries. The body of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling was finally found, 27 years after his abduction. Jacob’s gun-point abduction shocked the nation and spawned a network of state sex-offender registries, South Carolina’s among them. But extensive research since then has raised serious questions about the

Read more

Alabama's 2000 foot work restriction laws are so absurd, even responding to a fire too close to a school is a violation

Alabama’s 2000 work restriction laws are very absurd. I’ve been told stories by many individuals that the work restrictions are so vague, I’ve been told delivery or truck drivers could not deliver within 2000 feet of restricted zones nor could registrants work day labor or make house calls in restricted zones. Yet, until I didn’t have much in the way

Read more

The Dobbs Wire: Courts Addressing Issues Legislators Will Not

Banishment zones for those on the sex offense registry are euphemistically known as ‘residency restrictions.’   In 2015, the top court in Massachusetts struck down such local banishment schemes and, in its ruling, gave them a Bronx cheer:   “Except for the incarceration of persons under the criminal law and the civil commitment of mentally ill or dangerous persons, the days are

Read more