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This study looked at 25 years of Sex Offender Registration and Notification (SORN) evaluations and their effects on recidivism.  Results were looked at from 18 research articles which included 474,640 formerly incarcerated individuals.  This is the first study to ever use a meta-analysis of SORN’s effectiveness on recidivism, combining statistical results of numerous studies into one comprehensive study of SORN.

Two U. S. citizens have filed separate lawsuits in Leon County, Florida, alleging that their constitutional privacy and due-process rights have been violated since their names continue to be listed on the Florida registry even though they do not live in Florida.   One man lived in Florida from 2012 to 2019 but now resides in Oregon.  The other man

Date of Event: September 30, 2021 Time: 7:00 to 9:00 Eastern NARSOL will have a two-hour conference call on September 30, beginning at 7:00 eastern time. We will be discussing NARSOL’s new relationship with Paul Dubbeling. Mr. Dubbeling is an attorney based in Chapel Hill, North Carolina who is now on retainer with NARSOL. He will be leading our reinvigorated Scarlet

It was recently reported that the Kansas State Supreme Court ruled that the registry is not punitive.  It turns out that this registry includes more than just people with a past sex offense.  The Kansas Criminal Registry is one of the most sweeping in the country, including people convicted of drug, violent and sex crimes. The court wrote in its

Washington D.C.’s Metro Board had proposed that anyone arrested on SUSPICION of committing a sex offense or a crime involving a firearm should have a temporary ban from using the stations, trains and buses.  Apparently, the people arrested would be guilty until proven innocent. The bigger issue here, though, is that the board has dropped the proposal as a result

The Tampa Bay Times has been reporting on the Pasco County Sheriff’s Office for targeting and harassing individuals with a criminal background along with family members living with them.  A follow-up story from the Tampa Bay Times reported that the Pasco County Sheriff’s office was also monitoring public school students who had discipline problems in school.  What is coming next

Patch.com, the money-making group that likes to foster the myth that anyone with a past sex offense is out to harm children, started making changes last year after NARSOL called them out: STOP the Red Dots! Even though Patch continued publishing their maps showing where registrants live in certain communities, they also started sharing research, debunking some myths about registrants.

Kansas has started the conversation about making changes to the registry, but they still have a long way to go. Kansas does not have residency restrictions. The good part of the discussion: The Council of State Governments found that requiring an offender to register did not reduce recidivism. The penalty for failing to register is too strong. There are 423

A senior housing complex is relocating a resident, who had been living there since March, simply because he was found to have a past sex offense from 1983.  This man has not been arrested for any additional crimes since his release from prison in 1991.  I have to wonder if the “sex crime” that sent him to prison is still

An investigator with the St. Paul Police Department has been placed on paid leave after federal judges rebuked her for lying to a grand jury concerning a sex trafficking case.  The investigator also lied during a detention hearing. Prosecutors in St. Paul are now trying to determine what to do with other cases that the investigator was involved with, as