Registries are useless but politicians love them anyway
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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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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NC COA: Satellite based monitoring unreasonable without evidence it works
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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Republicans invest half million to upgrade statewide database of sex offenders
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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Lawsuit moves forward in twice-delayed hearing on Motion to Dismiss
By ROBIN . . . At a hearing in federal court (Middle District, NC) on Monday, April 16, 2018, NARSOL, NCRSOL, and two John Doe plaintiffs were represented by Attorney
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Father denied access to severely ill son; offered “supervised” visits
By LENORE SKENAZY . . . Wondering whether the sex offender registry actually works to make kids safer? Consider a case at the Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin, where alert staff
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Abusing his authority, Harrison goes “above and beyond” what the law allows
By ROBIN . . . In June, 2017, a registered sex offender in Halifax County was visited by the sheriff’s office for his biannual verification check. Eight days later, and
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