SORNA Held Unconstitutional in Pennsylvania
ANNA P. SAMMONS – A court calling the sex offender registry “an overbroad, suffocating net“? Is this the beginning of the end of the registry? No, of course not. But
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Inside the surveillance software tracking child porn offenders across the globe
BOCA RATON, Fla. — In December 2016, law enforcement agents seized computers and hard drives from the home of Tay Christopher Cooper, a retired high school history teacher, in Carlsbad,
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After 7 years in limbo, federal appeals court rules on Alabama sex offender’s lawsuit
HOWARD KOPLOWITZ – Seven years after an Alabama sex offender’s lawsuit languished in a federal appeals court, a three-judge panel decided the case in October 2022. Michael McGuire, a homeless
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Federal lawsuit filed challenging SORNA regulations
Nearly 20 years ago, Congress passed a law requiring people convicted of certain sex offenses to register with their states. But Congress also left it entirely up to the U.S.
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Registries are “a bad tool” says Vander Wall in interview
By Mike Mason . . . ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – When Congress passed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, it required states to enact a sex offender
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Experts say sex offender registries don’t work. Can they be fixed?
During confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, Republicans hammered away at her record in cases involving sex offenders. Much of that centered around misleading claims about sentences
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Snapchatting teenager faces up to 70 years for sexting
By Emily Horowitz . . . Let’s say you’re a 17-year-old boy asking two 16-year-old girls to sext you on Snapchat—well, that’s pretty normal these days, right? Let’s agree that
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