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COMMERCE CITY, Colo. – What to do with sex offenders once they’ve served their time and are back in your neighborhood? Tracking them is one thing — making sure they stay employed and stay out of trouble is another. Because of that, Commerce City is taking a new approach to keeping tabs on sex offenders. “The biggest part of these

MANATEE — Deputies arrested a homeless man after he hit another man who was kicked out of an Ellenton bar for being a child molester, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. Staff of the Three Oaks Bar in Ellenton told the victim to leave the property because he was a convicted child molester, according to an arrest report. The

Here’s a post by an Arizona Attorney. If you read it and think this practice closely mirrors the scam law enforcement in Florida has been running for years, you’re right. Apparently the financial success of the scam has caught on in other states: When it comes to sexual offenses, Arizona has some of the harshest prison sentences in the country.

In June, RSOL National held an annual convention in Dallas, TX. Two members of our board attended and Gail Colletta, our president, even participated on a speaker panel. For those of you who missed the event; videos of the presentation are now available online and we’ve posted a few of them below.   RSOL Conf 2015 Legislative Action Panel RSOL

CITY OF SHASTA LAKE, Calif. – The Shasta County Jail has released the mugshot of a suspect who deputies said shot another man after learning he was a registered sex offender. Timothy Gould, 28, was arrested Monday around 5:30 p.m. after officers had identified him as a suspect in an earlier shooting in the City of Shasta Lake. According to

When the Federal Court dismissed our lawsuit challenging the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restrictions (currently on appeal), Miami-Dade County issued a press release stating, “Miami-Dade County Commissioner Jose “Pepe” Diaz is applauding a federal district court ruling that upholds the County’s residency restrictions on sex offenders.” The residency restrictions, which have been proven ineffective and actually counter-productive in protecting children