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This document was put out by the The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) at the beginning of this year, but it is very useful and filled with valuable information. You are encouraged to read and share it with others and apply the reasoning and research to your arguments when seeking abolition of the registry. comments-to-ali-on-draft-model-penal-code-on-sex-offender-registries-january-2021-.pdf

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mt., wants to ensure this doesn’t happen again and on Monday re-introduced the Denying Pensions to Convicted Child Molesters Act. The bluntly titled bill would automatically stop, upon conviction, tax dollars from going to pay for the retirement of child predators who worked for the federal government. Daines previously introduced the bill in May 2019 and again

In its release against ALI, NCMEC not only makes falseimplications, they print actual lies. They imply that strangerdanger is a serious threat to children, but they lie in sayingthat if there were no public sex offense registry, companiesthat hire people to work with youth would have no way ofdetermining if a person had a sexual crime conviction. Toprotect children, we

It’s that time of year again. The time when new bills start being introduced this legislative session. One of the first to come up on our radar is SB 512, which is a resurfacing of a failed bill from last year, the crux of it’s impact on our population would be that it would require a “Vacation Rental” to be

Two recent reports from the U.S. Sentencing Commission (USSC) shed light on the legal treatment of sex offenders and further undermine the prevailing assumption that all members of that broad class pose similar threats to public safety. That assumption, which underlies both harsh punishments and indiscriminate registration requirements, is demonstrably wrong. In fiscal year 2019, according to a USSC report

Tennessee lawmakers are in a rush to make changes to the state’s sex offender registry to avoid parts of it being deemed unconstitutional. This comes after a federal judge in Michigan removed thousands of people from that state’s list — and as 30 virtually identical lawsuits are pending against the state of Tennessee.  The majority of those lawsuits allege that amendments

Just wanted to share what I ran into recently.. Iv bought two cars in the last three months. Both times when the dealership tried to transfer my tags a large message pops up on the DMV site and says. You can not update address due to persons status as registered sex offender. That’s super embarrassing. The only way they found

This report updates and expands upon the Commission’s 2012 Report to the Congress: Federal Child Pornography Offenses. It provides the Commission’s most in-depth study of child pornography production offenses to date through an analysis of three primary factors that the Commission has identified as relevant to sentencing child pornography production offenders. Focusing on data related to child pornography production offenders’ proximity

Professor Ira Ellman and his wife, Tara researched the highly touted and often quoted, but untrue, high recidivism rate of 80% among those required to register. Professor Ellman will share the results of their research in ‘Frightening and High‘ as well as his newly released paper ‘When Animus Matters and Sex Offense Underreporting Does Not: The Sex Offender Registry Regime.’

There was a time where people used to get their news from the local paper. On their walk to work they would pick up the newspaper at the corner news stand and read about the world’s events on their bus to work. If a headline grabbed their attention, they would read the story. If it was of no interest they