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If the holidays, or anything you are dealing with, have you depressed, reach out. Below you are free to share, anonymously, with others who are where you are or have been where you have been and can offer help. If you are feeling down, share. If you are feeling hopeful, share. We are a community, we are a family, let’s

An Indiana win!  Hartford City, IN (population around 6,000) has an ordinance which sets up banishment zones for registrants, areas where individuals on the sex offense registry may not spend time or even pass through under threat of prosecution.  For waiting, across the street, to pick up his daughter from school, a father was cited under the ordinance.  In  2015

In an important decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit on Wednesday struck down [Doe v. Cooper — opinion posted here] as unconstitutional under the First Amendment yet another “unconstitutional monstrosity” perpetrated by the North Carolina legislature in its unceasing efforts to make life as miserable as humanly possible for previously convicted (but now ostensibly “free”) sex

A win in North Carolina!  Yesterday a federal appeals court turned thumbs down on major parts of a North Carolina law which set up banishment zones for registrants, areas where individuals on the NC sex offense registry cannot visit or even pass through, under threat of felony prosecution and prison time.  According to the court’s ruling, North Carolina failed to

JEFFERSON COUNTY, AL (WBRC) – Investigators are still looking for answers after a fire broke out on Thanksgiving Day near the back door of a home on 10th Street in Robinwood. Sources say the fire is suspicious. Raymond Martin lives at the home with his mother. Martin is a registered sex offender. read more

BEAVERCREEK Having sex with his now wife and the mother of his three children when she was a 14-year-old high school freshman earned Josh Strader a label he’s found impossible to shake: Tier II sex offender. Now Strader, and countless others throughout Ohio, may get a break. Proposed changes to Ohio’s sex offender registry would give judges more discretion on

A former family doctor at Perdido Bay Family Care, was arrested in January 2014 after he used Craigslist and text messages to arrange sexual intercourse with an individual he believed to be a 14-year-old male. At trial, Lee was convicted of three offenses: traveling to meet a minor after using a computer to seduce, solicit or lure the minor; unlawful use

CAPE CORAL – Cape Coral is working on changing a law to make the city’s children safer from sex offenders. The plan involves changing the definition of parks, playgrounds, and schools, and where sex offenders can live in relation to those places. The city has always been strict when it comes to sex offenders and predators, and changes to the

The following were notes from Registrant Travel Action Group (RTAG – registranttag.org) trip to Washington, D.C.   On November 14th,  traveled to DC with the following objectives:   Meet with congressional staff representatives on the foreign services and judicairy committees to present a white paper and initial results of registrant travel experiences subsequent to the establishment of the Angel Watch

A father of a Grossmont Union High School District student is suing the district for refusing him access to his child’s school because he is a registered sex offender. The lawsuit, filed in Superior Court on November 18, alleges that school administrators at his son’s high school (not mentioned due to privacy issues) are violating state law that guarantees access