While it's no substitute for participating in the conference in person, the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws has generously made their videos available for viewing to those who could not attend. Anyone who can attend next year's conference, should attend....

Former Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, who lived here in Florida, died yesterday at the age of 99. Although he was Republican appointed, Stevens emerged as the Supreme Court's leading liberal during his nearly 35 years on the SCOTUS bench. In 2002's ACLU v....

Spectrum posted an article today asking the question; "Many first-time sex offenders on the spectrum may not understand the laws they break. How should their crimes be treated?" Many autistic individuals become embroiled in the criminal justice system because they...

Lawmakers are using “stranger danger” myths to keep almost a million Americans out of work and on the verge of homelessness. Following are some excerpts from a GREAT article in the Huffington Post Winters is a member of an expanding and invisible American underclass....

My name is Melissa Grady and I a faculty member at the Catholic University of America’s National Catholic School of Social Service. I along with my colleague Jill Levenson, professor at Barry University in Florida, are conducting a study aimed at understanding the...

The Orlando Sentinel reports that Steven Stryker, a Navy veteran, died after his court-appointed guardian, Rebecca Fierle, determined that he should not receive life-saving actions, despite Stryker's desire that they be administered. According to the Sentinel, "When...

As soon as I saw the headline, I started to worry for New Mexico. The New York Times last week ran a story with the headline, "Jeffrey Epstein Registered as a Sex Offender in 2 States. In New Mexico He Didn't Have to." and I immediately thought to myself, 'OH NO!' How...