Minnesota's Civil Commitment center at Moose Lake, where certain persons required to register as sex offenders are indefinitely detained for "treatment" after the expiration of their sentence, reported their third death from COVID-19. Two other "clients" died last...

If you are on the California registry and would like more information, visit ACSOL The Tiered Registry Law (formerly Senate Bill 384), passed by the California state legislature four years ago, is now effective. Some of its provisions, however, will not begin until...

Taiwan's Constitutional Court on Thursday declared that current laws allowing convicted sex offenders to be held in a designated facility for therapy after completing their sentence are "mostly constitutional." However, the court ruled it "unconstitutional" that the...

The following is a Law Review Article that appeared in the Arizona State Law Journal. Thanks to Prof. Tamara Rice Lave (Co-Counsel on the Ex Post Facto Plus Challenge) for writing it. INTRODUCTION In this Article, I consider ways in which Arizona's laws regarding sex...

From Politico Across the country, people with felony convictions face a daunting web of small obstacles to rebuilding normal lives. What will it take to fix? Nationwide, 45,000 “collateral consequences” regulate the lives of people with criminal records, dictating...

The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that inmates who have been convicted of nonviolent sex crimes may be eligible for early parole consideration as part of a ballot measure that nearly two-thirds of voters approved of four years ago. “The initiative’s language...

Our apologies: a member pointed out the following bill was intended to circumvent a Florida Appellate District Court opinion that someone's obligation to register does not begin until they have paid off all fines (see: State of Florida vs. Ray La Vel James, Fla. 2nd...

This is something we wrote about earlier and has been a concern. The Lockport Central School District of NY had installed an "AEGIS facial recognition system" consisting of cameras placed throughout schools in the District. They claimed that the system would be used...