Las Vegas police partner with smartphone app to show sex offenders in neighborhoods ahead of Halloween

The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) has partnered with an app that show residents where sex offenders live in their neighborhoods ahead of Halloween. The free app called Offender Watch says on its website that it allows parents to “track your children, map offenders nearby, get alerts if your child is contacted or lingers near an offender’s residence, safety tips,

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Hiring benefits for employers who want to hire a registrant.

Here are some bullet points to share on job interviews or to prospective employers who are considering hiring a registrant. The IRS offers some nice tax incentives for hiring someone that is difficult to employ. The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a Federal tax credit available to employers for hiring and employing individuals formerly incarcerated or those previously convicted

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FAC is looking for a Social Media Manager volunteer

FAC is searching for an individual or individuals who can assist with our social media pages. Generally, content from our website gets re-posted to our Facebook and Twitter pages. Once there, very little engagement takes place (if any, because we currently have nobody managing it). The social media manager(s) would administer our social media pages, engage with people who post

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Canada: Supreme Court finds mandatory lifetime registration unconstitutional

Canada, like the US, has a sex offender registry. Unlike the US, theirs is not public and contains nowhere near (not even close) to the restrictions of SORNA or any State. Even with that, Canada’s Supreme Court was still offended by mandatory lifetime registration and declared it to be unconstitutional. The case is R. v. Ndhlovu, 2022 SCC 38. Canada

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MISLEADING TITLE: Nearly 100 Hudson Valley Sex Offenders Removed From New York Streets

The Westchester County District Attorney’s Office reports more than 80 registered and non-registered sex offenders on probation in Westchester County are required to attend the educational program at the Westchester County Courthouse on Monday, October 31 from 5:30 to 10 p.m. During the educational program, sex offenders will listen to what’s described as compelling stories of devastation committed on both

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Free Event: Envision National Prevention Conference November 8-9, 2022.

ENVISION is an annual conference that brings together diverse child advocates and organizations and empowers them to prevent child sexual abuse using a public health approach. ENVISION is held in partnership with Darkness to Light and the Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Envision 2022 focuses on the

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Attention Louisiana Attorneys: Sue St. John Parrish Over Halloween Signs

The sign ordinance that was killed in Butts County, GA and by the 11th Circuit, as well as the subject of litigation in Jacksonville exists in other parts of the country. If there’s a Louisiana affiliate or a Louisiana attorney connected with the cause, please consider suing! see: https://www.wdsu.com/article/st-john-sex-offender-warning-halloween/41767189

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