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In 2015, many NARSOL supporters followed NARSOL’s participation in the Rhode Island residency restrictions case, and quite a few people contributed funds to help NARSOL support that very important case.  The road has been long, but they have at last prevailed. Many...

Steven Yoder is to be applauded for his investigative reporting of the current situation for many people on the sex offense registry in South Florida. This past November, leaders of Fort Lauderdale, Florida, patted themselves on the back for the “good” job they were...

A federal court ruled unconstitutional Rhode Island’s law that makes it a crime for certain sex offenders to reside within 1,000 feet of a school, saying the residency prohibition was unconstitutionally void for vagueness. ACLU of RI cooperating attorney Labinger...

Steven Yoder, an investigative journalist who has had articles featured at our site, has done much to share with the public the truth about people on the sex offense registry and the punitive effects the draconian laws and ordinances have had on registrants. Yoder is...

Florida has the country’s second-largest veteran population, and the Biden administration is trying to keep those veterans from falling into homelessness.  At the same time, Florida has the third-highest homeless population for veterans and nonveterans in the country....

ACSOL President Catherine Carpenter, who is also an endowed law professor at Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles, has identified and analyzed a method that can be used to win registrants’ cases in court.  That method, know as the irrebuttable presumption...

It has been thought by many people that the algorithm used to determine the federal funding for each state’s sex offense registry took into account the number of people who are on the registry.  In January of 2022, Florida Action Committee sent a letter to Attorney...

As a teacher in a public school, each spring our students were given an anonymous survey asking questions on illegal drug use, thoughts of suicide, exposure to violence, and so on.  But the category that always received the most attention from the students was the one...