License Plate Reader Scans for Sex Offenders

This article out of Maryland describes the use of their new license plate scanning technology “LPR technology is used to scan for stolen vehicles, identification of persons with active warrants for their arrest, and monitoring for Amber alerts,” she said. “Information from LPR reads may be matched against databases for wanted persons, protection orders, missing persons, gang members, known and

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These Teens Kept Their Sexting Private, But Cops Found Out. Now They Face Sex Offender Registry, Jail.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, cops have charged 17-year-old Cormega Copening with sexual exploitation of a minor—his girlfriend, who is the same age—because the couple sent each other nude photos of themselves during their relationship. There’s no evidence the photos were ever sent to anyone else, and police only became aware of them because they searched Copening’s phone for unrelated reasons that

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It's Official: Lauren Book Is Running for State Senate

Miramar, Hollywood, Davie, Plantation, and Dania Beach, meet your next state senator: 30-year-old Lauren Book. The Plantation resident, founder of a nonprofit and daughter of influential lobbyist Ron Book —  is running for office, she told New Times via phone today. “I’m going neighborhood to neighborhood and lacing up my sneakers as I have in the past,” she said. Rather than

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Sex offender registry questioned after New Hampshire prep school grad convicted of sex crimes

Are people only beginning to realize now that most on the sex offender list are not all the repeat violent child molester pedophiles they thought they were?   CONCORD, N.H. –  A New Hampshire prep school graduate convicted of having sexual contact with a 15-year-old classmate as part of a game of sexual conquest must register as a sex offender

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