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In social media, critics of being required to carry a vaccine card claim that registrants are not required to carry cards identifying themselves as “sex offenders” because it is an invasion of their privacy.  Wrong. Alissa Ackerman points out that registrants do not have a lot of privacy.  To say otherwise is “just asinine”. A TikTok video claims it is

A 30-year veteran law enforcement officer of Orange County is accused of targeting a man, with a past sex offense, for the previous two years.  The registrant has a history of arrests for impersonating a police officer. The LE was informed in late 2020 that the investigation into the registrant for any wrongdoing was going to be closed. In March

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

A former Seminole County Assistant State Attorney will avoid prison for having sex with a 17-year-old girl.  Additionally, he will NOT have to register as a sex offender, and his only punishment will be serving two years on community control and eight on probation. How many people on the highly punitive registry in Florida for life, who had consensual sex

A petition with almost 10,000 signatures has been started by friends of a female bartender who was kidnapped, raped and killed by a man on the Georgia Sex Offense Registry. Georgia had required high-risk registrants to wear a GPS ankle monitor, but the Georgia Supreme Court ruled that was unconstitutional. The people leading the petition drive say that if driver’s

The picture of the driver’s license for a person forced to register in Louisiana that is given in this Reason.com article is foreboding.  Just looking at the license could be argument enough for many judges to rule it unconstitutional.  Unfortunately, Florida is right up there with them. Reason.com blasts Louisiana: Louisiana’s tendency has always been to place additional punishment on registrants in

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