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Blogs with News Stories on Sex Offender Issues:
MI: State to pay $80M to settle sex abuse cases… where it’s own guards are the perpetrators
The state of Michigan has more "sex offense" issues to deal with and it's not because of sex offenders on their registry, it's because of their own prison guards. In 2009, the state settled a 1996 case, Neal v. Michigan Department of Corrections, in which female...
NARSOL/ACSOL Conference Call on Current Litigation
From NARSOL: The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) will partner with the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL) for a three-hour conference call on March 2nd, beginning at 7:00 pm Eastern time. We will be updating you on...
Department of Juvenile Justice refuses to accept 15-year-old charged with possession of child pornography
Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly announced “Sex Offenders and deviants in this area who think they’re going to operate with impunity have got another thing coming" as they arrested and charged a 15 year old boy with five counts of possession of child pornography and...
FAC Joins Other Affiliate Organization in Amicus Brief
The Florida Action Committee, along with the Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offender Laws (California), Illinois Voices for Reform, Families Advocating Intelligent Registries (Maryland), Women Against the Registry Oklahoma Voices and Pennsylvania Association for...
MUST WATCH: John Stossel’s Forbidden Parenting
The government sometimes arrests parents for giving kids responsibility. In South Carolina, mom Deborah Harrell was jailed for letting her 9-year-old daughter play in a park for the day. Local media outlets breathlessly reported that Harrell left her daughter at the...
Utah woman pleads guilty to lewdness for being topless in her own home
A Utah woman who faced charges for being topless in her own home in front of her stepchildren has taken a plea bargain. The stakes were just too high for Tilli Buchanan to take the criminal case to trial, her attorney, Randy Richards, said Tuesday. She initially was...
WY: Wyoming passes bill restricting registrants’ access to their children’s school
Despite several voices of reason, the Wyoming house passed a bill on third reading that would make a parent's attendance at their child's school more of a challenge and that would give power to a biased school administrator to block a child's ability to have their...
PA: Child taken from woman who left son with person required to register for a decades old conviction.
This is a really scary decision out of Pennsylvania where a mom had her 9-year old son removed from her custody because her boyfriend, who had a 1992 conviction for a sex offense, had been left alone with the child. There were no allegations that the boyfriend had...
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