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A bill has been introduced in Washington that would extend membership to the Washington State’s Sex Offender Policy Board (SOPB) to people who served time in jail for sex offenses.  The group would be extended to include a member of a sex offender advocacy group and “a representative with lived experience with incarceration for a sex offense,” among others. SOPB

What you need to know about SB 1230 and HB 1235:   SB 1230 and HB 1235 are identical bills where our legislators are attempting to amend the Sexual Predators Act (FS 775.21) and the Sexual Offenders Act (943.0435).   SB 1230 is on the agenda for the Senate Criminal Justice Committee on January 23, 2024, (Tuesday) at 1:00 pm,

Arguing before the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) is a case challenging the Chevron Doctrine.  This doctrine provides that when unknowns, or ambiguity, exists, matters should be deferred to the professional experience of the government agency involved.     This doctrine enables federal agencies to write rules to implement laws dutifully passed by Congress, but to “fill in the gap” and draft,

Congressman Joe Morelle, D-NY, has introduced a bill that would make the creation and dissemination of AI produced porn a federal crime.  This is often called deep fake porn because it uses computer technology to blend the face of a real person onto the image of someone else’s nude body.     AI has advanced this ability with new technology that

Florida Statute 943.0435(4)(e)1 requires all registered offenders to register email addresses and internet identifiers with their local jurisdiction within 48 hours of initial use.  The internet identifiers are your username (moniker, designation, screen name, or other name used for self-identification)  and the software, website, or app that are being used.    Due to the vagueness of the requirement relative to

Outside the realm of SORNA and SORR, homelessness is often debated over whether it is truly voluntary or involuntary.  That is irrelevant in the world of SORNA and SORR where the debate centers on whether it is harder to convince someone to rent to you, or how to find a location that meets vague and often hidden obstacles.     In

There is a growing number of wrongful convictions for sex offenses that keep surfacing throughout the country.  This is what happens when no corroborating evidence is required:  it is he-said-she-said.   This most recent case was in Michigan, but Florida has had its share of wrongful convictions for a sex offense.  For almost a decade now, some Florida attorneys, judges, and

This post was written by people within NARSOL and was first published at NARSOL.org.   NARSOL recently released copies of two expert reports filed last week in Antrim v. Carr, 19-cv-396 (Eastern District of Wisconsin).     According to NARSOL, “The case challenges Wisconsin’s statutory scheme requiring that certain individuals convicted of sexual offenses be forced to wear a GPS monitoring

By Sandy Rozek, Communications Director with NARSOL   First published at NARSOL.org A young man in Mississippi was arrested on January 7, 2024, for statutory rape that he committed in 2018 when he was 13 years old. The local media says that he is the youngest person on their local sex offense registry.  Rozek questions why he has been placed

News abounds of cases where individuals charged with specific criminal activity also see efforts to attach a sex offense charge and regulate the individual through a state run SORNA regime.     In People v. Brown in the state of New York, a defendant was convicted of robbing his aunt in front of his 10 year old niece.  The “unlawful imprisonment”