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Free. Live-streamed on Facebook (https://www.easternstate.org/facebook) and via Zoom webinar. (https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89360366229? pwd=MzNTM3BWZ3psKzUzREtsYnNyRTczQT09) Join us as we take a look at the history and consequences of well intentioned legislation and the human and community impact of sex offender registries. Since 1996, all 50 U.S. states and Washington D.C. require people convicted of sex offenses to be placed on a registry. Over the

If you’ve been following this forum during the past legislative session you will know that Senate Bill 234 has been on our radar and we’ve raised several calls to action opposing a lot of the horrible stuff that was in there. Our efforts made a significant difference as the version of SB 234 that was signed off on yesterday and

Wait… didn’t we post this story a few days ago? Multi-agency operation, silly name, ominous headline… but no, that was Las Vegas, Nevada and this is Bend, Oregon… Whatever, it’s all the same old story anyhow… This time “‘Operation High Desert’: Federal marshals lead Bend-area sex offender sweep”. According to this article; “a coordinated sweep by the U.S. Marshals Service,

Hot off the press is the following Order from the US District Court from the Eastern District of Michigan. Michigan – Final Order 06212021 While it’ll take a few readings to understand and be able to explain the full impact of the order, we didn’t want to delay distribution of this information. At first blush it seems to be good

Convicted paedophiles could soon have their passports and driving licences stamped with a ‘danger’ warning to stop them from working with children. It comes as Labour MP Sarah Champion is calling for the passport office and the DVLA to mark the files of the UK’s 100,000 sex offenders. SOURCE

That’s what the title to the article could have read, instead it says, “Sex offender compliance check conducted, 18 arrests made”. The title sounds awful, but if you read the article it tells something different. “The LVMPD’s Sex Offender Apprehension Team, in conjunction with the United States Marshals Service Sex Offender Predator Apprehension Team and Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task

The Colorado Supreme Court on Monday exempted people with a sex offense conviction from a key 2019 decision that prohibited defendants from being sentenced to prison followed by probation in the same criminal case. People with a sex offense conviction in Colorado can face such punishment in some circumstances, the justices found in a pair of opinions that examined how

One sure way to lose a popularity contest is to fight for the rights of convicted sex offenders. But The National Sex Offender Registry, which was established during an era of panic over crime and child danger, has come with a host of unintended consequences. Sociologist Emily Horowitz is one of a handful of academics and researchers who speaking out

The Montana legislature seems to agree that being on the sex offender registry is punishment, for which one incorrectly placed on it would receive compensation if exonerated. House Bill 92, created a process through which the wrongfully convicted and imprisoned can get paid $60,000 a year for each year they spent in prison and $25,000 for each additional year on

The Attorney General has proposed 22 amendments to the Act to amend the Sexual Offences Act, Chap. 11:28. Chief among these are the creation of two sexual offender registers. Speaking in the Senate on Tuesday, AG Faris Al-Rawi said the bill intended to create two registers: the National Sex Offender Register, which would be private and for the use of