Sex offender restrictions are the new Jim Crow
By GREG BARNES . . . On Sept. 1, a registered sex offender will be breaking the law if he continues to work at a car repair shop that sits
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Pokémon Go ban senseless, useless, political theater
By STEVEN YODER . . . Last last month, two state senators in New York—Jeffrey Klein and Diane Savino—issued a report laying out an apparently scary set of numbers. In
Read morePokémon Go pedo pervs? Hocus pocus hogwash
By SANDY ROZEK & ROBIN VANDERWALL . . . The Pokémon Go craze is sweeping the nation and beyond, sending young people scurrying through the streets, phones in hand, frantically
Read moreMegan’s Law a total failure; harms families, children
By DANIEL WALMER . . . It was every parent’s worst nightmare. Seven-year-old Megan Kanka left her New Jersey home on July 29, 1994, for a summer afternoon bike ride
Read moreNo evidence registries increase public safety
By NOAH BERLATSKY . . . “He is a lifetime sex registrant. That doesn’t expire. Just like what he did to me doesn’t expire, doesn’t just go away after a
Read morePackingham petition offers hope for change at nation’s highest court
By ROBIN VANDERWALL . . . Among the more significant cases concerning registered citizens that have made their way to the United States Supreme Court, few have had as much
Read moreWhen “ample alternatives” are neither
By David Post . . . A couple of weeks ago, I joined 16 law professors in an amicus brief (authored by Eugene Volokh and several of his students) urging
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