7th Circuit Examines Lifetime GPS Requirement
The Seventh Circuit on Friday weighed the intrusiveness of a Wisconsin statute that institutes lifetime GPS monitoring of certain convicted sex offenders against the necessity of preventing further offenses from that particular class of criminals. The underlying suit...
read moreUT: Officials consider streamlining Utah Sex Offender Registry
State officials are considering changes to the sex offender registry, starting with deeper data gathering to determine whether it is safe for more offenders to be removed from the system after long-term treatment and no repeat crimes. Monica Diaz, Utah Sentencing...
read moreJoe Rogan Experience: Interview with Edward Snowden
Description: Former CIA contractor turned whistleblower Edward Snowden shocked the world when he revealed the misdeeds of the US intelligence community and its allies. Now living in Russia, he is a noted privacy advocate and author who serves as president of...
read moreWI: Homeless person required to register as a sex offender killed
A 54 year old person required to register as a sex offender was found dead with "suspicious head injuries" according to the Madison Wisconsin Police, A local alderman is calling for the closure of these "homeless encampments", but fails to recognize that persons...
read moreNYT: Misinformation is ‘Its Own Pandemic’ Among Parents
Here’s how to push back on social media and in person. In January 2019, Scott Weiner, a California State Senator, introduced what he thought was an L.G.B.T.Q. Civil Rights Bill. At the time, California law gave judges discretion on whether to put a 19-year-old man on...
read morePrivate company OffenderWatch wants to control registrant travel notifications.
FROM OFFENDERWATCH'S PRESS RELEASE: OffenderWatch the leading sex offender registry management solution for law enforcement, and the Caribbean Committee Against Sex Crimes (CCASC), an initiative of nonprofit Zandoli USA, today announced a joint mission to deliver a...
read moreDNA evidence exonerates Florida man after 37 years.
After 37 years behind bars, DNA evidence has cleared a Florida man of rape and murder charges decades after his sentencing. A hearing before Hillsborough County Circuit Judge Christopher Nash on Monday resulted in an order wiping the previous convictions and life...
read moreBack to not voting: 11th Circuit sides with Florida on voting rights.
The voting rights if people in Florida with past felony convictions have been in limbo since the 2018 passage of Amendment 4, that was supposed to restore rights to former felons (other than those with a murder or sex offense conviction) who have completed their...
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