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WASHINGTON, July 26, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Department of Justice’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART) will mark the 10-year anniversary of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act (AWA) of 2006 at the 2016 National Symposium on Sex Offender Management and Accountability today through July 27, in Kansas City, Missouri. “In 10 short

What’s the most common age of sex-offenders? It’s not a trick question, but unless you follow this stuff closely you’ll almost certainly answer wrong. In fact, most people are shocked to learn that the most common age of people charged with a sex offense isn’t a creepy 39, or 51. It’s 14. That’s right. As the US Bureau of Justice

In response to the “5-year-old allegedly raped by 13-year-old” my heart goes out to the 5-year-old and family. These situations are happening more and more and the public needs to be educated. The mother wanting to enforce a Juvenile Sex Offender Registry doesn’t understand the negative effects that has on adolescents. It has been stated that making adolescents register can

“All Lives Matter.” That seems to be the catchphrase of the summer. It was started by the “Black Lives Matter” movement in response to police shootings of African American men for no apparent reason other than a prevailing sentiment (and, to be honest, prejudice) that the value of one race is less than another and killing them is justified because

RENO, Nev. (NEWS 4) — A nearly decade long battle started in Nevada after President George W. Bush signed the Adam Walsh Act in 2006. The federal law is also known as the Sex Offender Registration & Notification Act. It stemmed from the 1981 abduction and murder of 6-year-old Adam Walsh. In 2007, Nevada lawmakers passed Assembly Bill 579 to

Who says the registry is not punishment…..???   A clerical error resulted in a Texas couple having angry neighbors yelling outside their home, after postcards went out saying that a sex offender lived there. The notices, sent out by the Texas Department of Public Safety, went out to residents within a four block radius of the house where Michelle Swindle and her