The Dobbs Wire:  Organizing  inside.  There’s good news out of Marcy where several hundred men have been locked up indefinitely in New York’s sex offense civil commitment facility.  Those inside are working collectively to build some influence and, no doubt, draw...

A few weeks ago, our weekly update concerned Galen Baughman, a reform advocate who was facing trial to determine whether he would be labeled a sexually violent predator and civilly committed. The below is an excerpt from a message Galen's mom sent to his supporters...

In a decision handed down by Florida's 4th District Court of Appeal, the Fourteen (14) YEAR sentence of a person required to register for a Failure to Register charge was overturned after the state could not prove he failed to register within 48 hours of "establishing...

We all want to tell our story because, to each of us, it is the worst thing that ever happened to us, and we want to believe that we would rather accept someone else’s life than our own.  But if we were all to throw our shoes into a circle….you are likely to take back...

Person's on the North Carolina registry are speaking out against a law that bans registrants from attending the North Carolina State Fair. NARSOL and NCRSOL's Robin Vanderwall spoke out against the ban. His organization is also involved in a legal challenge to the NC...

A lawyer for New Jersey arguing Monday before the state Supreme Court called it vital to public safety that certain sex offenders register as such for life. ...Oral arguments Monday morning focused on two sex offenders, referred to only by their initials G.A. and G.H,...

From the Blog of Scott H Greenfield, comes an interesting but horrifyingly disturbing real-life story of a person required to register as a sexual offender who was released on probation, only to request to be voluntarily violated so that he can go back to prison. Why,...

The Dobbs Wire:  Is the sex offense registry growing or shrinking?  Hard to tell because the long-time keeper of the national statistics, National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), has stopped updating the figures!  Every six months for many years...