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Federal judge calls Alabama sex offender registration scheme debilitating

February 13, 2019March 9, 2019 rwvnral 19 Views 3 Comments alabama, First Amendment, judge keith watkins, license marking, public shaming, sex offenders

By JACOB SULLUM . . . “Sex offenders are not second-class citizens,” writes U.S. District Judge W. Keith Watkins in a recent decision overturning two provisions of the Alabama Sex Offender Registration

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MI attorney general calls registries punishment and ineffective

February 10, 2019March 9, 2019 rwvnral 9 Views 1 Comment banishment, dana nessel, excessive punishment, michigan, public safety, sex offender registry, SORNA

By GUY HAMILTON-SMITH . . . Michigan’s Attorney General has entered the cultural and legal conflagration of how we reckon with sexual violence in our society with a remarkable (and compelling) argument:

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Federal court slams NC’s registration procedure for lacking any process

November 24, 2018March 9, 2019 rwvnral 19 Views 5 Comments fourteenth amendment, out-of-state convictions, procedural due process, sex offender registry, substantial similarity, terrence boyle

By ROBIN . . . Jonathan Merideth moved to North Carolina in 2004 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor sexual offense in the state of Washington. Upon arriving, Merideth checked

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Grady heads back to N.C. Sup. Court

November 9, 2018March 17, 2019 rwvnral 9 Views 3 Comments ankle bracelet, Fourth Amendment, grady, NC supreme court, reasonableness, satellite based monitoring, search, seizure, sex offender monitoring, US supreme court

By EMERY P. DALESIO . . .North Carolina’s Supreme Court is re-evaluating whether forcing sex offenders to be perpetually tracked by GPS-linked devices, sometimes for the rest of their lives,

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NC COA: Satellite based monitoring unreasonable without evidence it works

August 14, 2018March 17, 2019 rwvnral 7 Views 4 Comments ankle monitor, Fourth Amendment, nc court of appeals, north carolina, satellite based monitor, sex offenders, thomas griffin, wanda bryant

Associated Press . . . North Carolina’s second-highest court says authorities can’t force a sex-offender to wear a monitoring device for decades because evidence fails to show that tracking protects

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Thomas Jefferson: America’s most esteemed child predator

July 4, 2018March 17, 2019 rwvnral 11 Views 1 Comment 4th of july, child predation, france, monticello, sally hemings, sex offender, thomas jefferson

By ROBIN VANDER WALL . . . July 4th. A sex offender died today. Well, not precisely. But, on this day 192 years ago, a sex offender passed away. This was

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Republicans invest half million to upgrade statewide database of sex offenders

June 19, 2018March 17, 2019 rwvnral 24 Views 9 Comments American Airlines, andy munn, Bank of America, Carolina Panthers, eddie caldwell, nc gen assembly, sex offender registry, sex offenders, sheriffs association, state budget

By DAN KANE . . . North Carolina’s new budget includes $500,000 in taxpayer money to keep better track of sex offenders by cataloging where they work, what cars they

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