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On Nov. 18, Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister held a press conference to announce the results of Operation Trade Secrets II, a six-month sting that purported to target human traffickers. Flanked on one side by a placard of mugshots and on the other by a video of deputies handcuffing men and women in a hotel, Chronister told reporters that undercover

XXXXX is a registered citizen and was told by his probation officer that if he wanted to own a business in his name, that his probation office would notify all of his clients that he was on the registry, and that XXXXX would be required to provide a weekly itinerary to probation. Knowing that this wasn’t in his probation orders,

It’s not often you see prosecutors and public defenders working together on the same team. But Thursday night, representatives from both groups spoke before state lawmakers in a joint effort to reform the law around Colorado’s juvenile sex offender registry list. “There are demonstrable…effects for children listed on this public registry right now,” said Amanda Gall, a Sexual Assault Resource

An Indiana registrant’s petition for removal from their sex offender registry will move forward, after an appellate court ruled that the lower court DID have jurisdiction to hear the case. The petitioner committed an offense that required registration as a sex offender. In 2005, when he was added to the registry, his registration period was 10 years. In 2007 the

A second convicted child molester has died after he was beaten with a walking cane by another inmate last week at a central California prison, officials said Wednesday. SOURCE

The city of San Diego has agreed to remove a law which the locations where registered sex offenders who are no longer on parole for their crimes can live. Read in NBC 7 San Diego: https://apple.news/AAuRfkfNCRmKyQUHqFz4t8g

Saskatchewan is taking steps to prevent convicted sex offenders from changing their names, making it the first province to refuse name changes based on a criminal record. An order in council approved by cabinet last week will require a criminal record check for people over the age of 18 seeking a name change. “It would not be in the public interest

Serious violent and sexual offenders will no longer automatically be released halfway through their sentences under government plans introduced on Wednesday. If approved by MPs and peers, the new powers will come into force on 1 April and apply to relevant sentences imposed on or after that date. SOURCE  

A Utah judge has upheld the state’s lewdness law after a challenge by a West Valley City woman who is facing charges for being topless in her own home in front of her stepchildren. Third District Judge Kara Pettit denied Tilli Buchanan’s motion to declare the lewdness statute unconstitutional in a ruling filed Tuesday. Buchanan’s attorneys had argued that the

The Fresno Bee reports that ACSOL Attorney Janice Bellucci is suing Fresno County over their sex offender residency restriction that prohibits certain people from living within 3,000 feet of places like parks and schools. Fresno County is apparently the 40th municipality that has faced legal challenge over their ordinance and we all know how that worked out for them! Go