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Registries are useless but politicians love them anyway

July 16, 2019 rwvnral 9 Views 0 Comments crime, criminal justice, misinformation, recidivism, sex offender recidivism, sex offender registries, sex offenders

Used with permission By MICHAEL HOBBES . . . The first time Damian Winters got evicted was in 2015. He was living with his wife and two sons in suburban

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NCRSOL’s president attends AFP conference in San Antonio

April 5, 2019 rwvnral 111 Views 0 Comments AFP, Association of Fundraising Professionals, fundraising, narsol, ncrsol, non profit, san antonio

By SANDY ROZEK . . . At NARSOL, each of us wears many hats. Robin Vander Wall is the organization’s vice-chair, president of its foundation (Vivante Espero), sits on several

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Federal judge calls Alabama sex offender registration scheme debilitating

February 13, 2019March 9, 2019 rwvnral 533 Views 4 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 165 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, 2018July 16, 2019 rwvnral 220 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 193 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 134 Views 7 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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