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The Governor of Iowa has signed an executive order restoring the voting rights and the right to hold public office, to most people who have committed criminal offenses. https://governor.iowa.gov/sites/default/files/documents/EO7%20-%20Voting%20Restoration.pdf?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery The good is that it does not exclude persons who have committed an offense in the category of “sex offenses” The good is that the preamble recognizes that restoration of voting

The number of registered sex offenders residing in unincorporated areas of Johnson County increased from 370 in 2017 to 597 today, JCSO Chief Deputy Mark Reinhardt said. One residence that served as home to multiple offenders sat within 400 feet of a school, Reinhardt added. County population growth in general plays a role in the increase, King said, but other

The whole idea was that we are going to protect children. But because most abuse of children happens inside the family, the registry doesn’t affect that. It just creates more “stranger danger” fear. The research for twenty-five years shows it doesn’t make anyone safer. Instead, it does a great deal of harm, not only to individuals and their families but

According to Detective Superintendent Stewart Gull, the recent spate of ‘naming and shaming’ local offenders online after their sentences have been carried out is posing serious problems for their ability to reintegrate into the community. He told Express he is aware of more than 10 individuals – and, in some cases, their families – who have been adversely impacted by

Federal Judge Esther Salas, whose son was tragically killed last week, spoke out for the first time since the incident. As she explained in a video published by the Savoy Show, “A madman – who I believe was targeting me because of my position as a federal judge – came to my house.” The madman shot her son and her

The Michigan Supreme Court has stopped a man from suing the state after he spent more than a year in prison for a crime that wasn’t a crime. The man was behind bars for 17 months for failing to provide accurate information for Michigan’s sex offender registry. The Corrections Department then discovered that he actually wasn’t required to register. He

UPDATE:  FAC reached out to each county for hurricane procedures and you can find those responses HERE News stations in South Florida are beginning to report on Tropical Storm Isaias, which could hit our state as soon as Saturday. We hope none of our members or loved ones will be impacted by the storm but the threat of a potential

Members of a state board that writes the rules for how Colorado sex offenders are supervised voted on policy revisions that benefited their firms, which held state contracts worth millions of dollars annually, according to a scathing performance audit the state auditor released Tuesday. The audit further found that most of the standards the Sex Offender Management Board has set

“During the past few years, many states have declared that pornography is a public health crisis,” said Ferguson. “Dr. Hartley and I were curious to see if evidence could support such claims, at least in regard to sexual aggression, or whether politicians were mistaking moral stances for science. Our evidence suggests that policy makers should examine other causes of sexual

A convicted sex offender has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Muskego’s rules that restrict where he can live, or whether he can live in the city at all. In the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, Ronald E. Schroeder said the city’s ordinances violates his constitutional rights by preventing his move from Waukesha to Muskego, where he has been invited to