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Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
The Danger to America’s Kids — Not What You Think
Jacob Wetterling’s abduction and death in 1989 led directly to a massive system of laws that today affects close to a million men, women, and children plus their family members. In that same year, 1989, the death by firearms of 4,384 children and teens caused barely a...
An all-too-common theme for politicians who are campaigning for an election
This all-too-common theme is to promote harsher laws for people with a sex offense all in the name of protecting our communities. Political leaders in Tallahassee, along with our Florida governor, have passed and signed into law Bill 537 that effectively removes the...
Decades on the Registry for a Crime He Didn’t Commit
Fascinating from The New Yorker (note article limit and...
MI: After a Registry is Ruled Unconstitutional, Whom, If Anyone, Can Registrants Sue for Damages?
Registrants represented by Oliver Law Group appeal dismissal of their suit against governors and state police, as reported by Courthouse News. For more background on Michigan registrants’ challenge, visit Michigan ACLU’s SORA Resources...
For Some Convicted Sex Offenders, Finishing Their Sentences Doesn’t Mean They Get To Go Home
The civil commitment fiasco gets covered in the publication Route Fifty: ”’There is no evidence that having these programs reduces sexual assaults,’ said [ACLU lawyer Ben] Wolf. ‘We have a good lab: Lots of states have these programs and lots don’t. There is no...
VIDEO: Pennsylvania vs. Torsilieri Oral Arguments
“There is a difference between the conviction and the effect of the registry’s label of a ‘high risk of danger’ on individuals, particularly things like unemployment and joblessness, houselessness, depression, and even suicide are affected by the label. SORNA says...
NARSOL PA Affiliate: Responds to SCOPA Hearing in Comm. v. George Torsilieri
Press Release: HARRISBURG, PA – The Pennsylvania Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (PARSOL) strongly urges the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to uphold Chester County Judge Allison Bell Royer’s finding in the case of Comm. v. George Torsilieri that...
FAC Affiliates in the Media: AZRSOL Demolishes “Frightening and High”
John Covert, with our affiliate, Arizonans for Rational Sex Offense Laws (AZRSOL), has published a guest column in the Arizona Capitol Times. In this column, John educates Arizona readers on the myth of “frightening and high,” how a Supreme Court decision perpetuates...
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