Families will not be ripped apart in Tennessee
By Sandy and Larry . . . The Tennessee General Assembly enacted a statute which would have forced families to be split apart, and it was scheduled to take effect
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Federal judge calls Alabama sex offender registration scheme debilitating
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
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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Growing number of advocates demand elimination of sex offender registries
By LINDSEY KLINE . . . “The tide is going to turn against sex offender registries when people realize they’re more likely to end up on the registry than to
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‘Norfolk Four’ to get money from state, city in groundbreaking payout
NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – Four sailors wrongfully convicted of and imprisoned for rape and murder will receive compensation from both the Commonwealth of Virginia and the City of Norfolk. A
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State fights ruling on rights restoration
JIM SAUNDERS. . .Gov. Rick Scott and the Florida Cabinet on Wednesday continued battling a judge’s ruling that would require the state to overhaul the controversial process for restoring ex-felons’
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Federal judge lifts ban on sex-offender’s calls to daughter
Illinois is one of the few states that prohibit registered sex offenders from contact with anyone under the age of eighteen years of age. That same law extends to parents
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