There are innocent people on the “sex offender registry”
At the April 2 Volusia County Council meeting and one other meeting last year, Councilman Don Dempsey said in his 34 years as a prosecutor and defense attorney, he had seen people who were innocent take a plea deal rather than play Russian roulette with a jury. As a...
read moreThe Sex Offender Registry Failed Them: Data Shows Rise in Sexual Assaults Aboard Cruise Ships
We’ve previously written about measures that cruise lines have been taking to exclude sex offenders from their vessels. But the latest Federal data suggest that they were targeting the wrong people all along. ...
read moreIllinois Supreme Court says studies do not always matter
According to a March 21 ruling from the Illinois Supreme Court, there are times when the legislature’s judgment in drafting a statute “may be based on regional speculation unsupported by evidence or empirical data and is not subject to judicial factfinding.” This...
read moreWisconsin, what are you doing?
By Sandy Rozek, NARSOL board member and communications director First published at narsol.org Sandy writes, “It is a given that if one is convicted of a crime, some sort of punishment will follow…But what, then, what if the lesson is not learned?...Then harsher...
read moreHarper v. Glass – Order and Impact
There is much to rejoice about with this order, but unfortunately this order addresses only the reporting requirements of those who have the label of sexual offender forced upon them, NOT SEXUAL PREDATORS. It is a bitter sweet victory for some, myself included, as my...
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