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Iowa officials have decided to release a convicted child molester from incarceration due to the belief that a recent sex change lowered the offender’s testosterone level making the felon less likely to re-offend. The state is now arguing that Smith’s lower testosterone level as a result of hormone treatment that Smith began in 2017 lowers the likelihood that Smith will

A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services. Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, are the current targets of the investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic

Earl Yarington, the author of the three articles recently posted at the FAC website on civil commitment, has asked that we share some of our stories with him concerning the effects of the registry on our family members.  He is writing a book on civil commitment and the effects of the registry on families, which parallels FAC’s new Non-Registrant Collateral

The Ohio Senate is holding hearings for a bill that could ease up on the punishment for teenage sexting, as lawmakers argue the current punishment can carry lifelong consequences.  Listen The proposed bill, SB239, still bans the act of teenagers sending sexually explicit images to other teenagers, however, it creates a standard punishment of attending a diversion program. Senator Nathan Manning

A Tennessee news station reached out to churches to get their take on a state bill that would require a person required to register as a sexual offender to provide written notice to the Church and obtain written permission before attending services. We believe this is a horrible requirement and that nobody should be required to shame themselves in order

ATLANTA — A sex offender rights group is accusing the Cobb County Sheriff’s Office of overstepping Georgia’s sex offender registration laws. In a letter sent this week to Cobb County Sheriff Neil Warren, the North Carolina based National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) claims deputies are “imposing invented requirements not contained in Georgia law.” READ MORE READ ALSO

January 29, 2020 –The National Association for Rational Sexual Offense Laws (NARSOL) has sent official correspondence to Sheriff Neil Warren of Cobb County, Georgia, reminding him that the sex offender registry is a civil regulatory scheme and not a vehicle for further punishment. The letter also calls on him to cease and desist from imposing unlawful registration requirements or else

After spending a full 25-year sentence in prison for a crime he did not commit, a Bronx, New York, man was exonerated by the first prosecutorial conviction review unit on the East Coast. Rafael Ruiz was convicted in 1985 for sexually assaulting a girl in East Harlem. Ruiz, then 25, was sentenced to 8 1/3 to 25 years in prison

Can anyone tell me why this is even a thing? Isn’t spiritual growth and repentance something society would want from someone who has sexually offended? To make that and the exercise of one’s religious beliefs more of a challenge to persons on the registry, a bill (House Bill 1922) proposed by Rep. Patsy Hazlewood would require the registrant to provide

Civil Rights Attorney Valerie Jonas is last year’s recipient of the Jeanne Baker Humanitarian Award. She received her award last night before an audience at the Savor Cinema in Fort Lauderdale, the city in which she had sex offender residency restrictions declared unconstitutional. Val has been fighting for human rights for more than three decades and has dedicated her present