When a Sex Offender Comes to Visit

Information for Sex Offenders A new study by Shawn M. Rolfe, Doctoral candidate at the University of Louisville, helps identify some of the requirements each individual state has when a registered sex offender travels there. A chart contained in the study provides a useful reference. WhenaSOComestoVisit-Rolfe  

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Kentucky Judge Declares Sex Offender Internet Ban Unconstitutional.

Good News for those on Sex Offender Registries Following the trend of most courts, including the US Supreme Court, a Kentucky Judge struck a law that banned sex offenders from any site that’s “available to minors”, stating the law is too broad and effectively bans most of the internet. Judge says Internet ban is unconstitutional U.S. District Judge Gregory Van

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Another Michigan Sex Offender Registry Case

News About Sex Offender Registry – Michigan The Michigan Supreme Court is hearing a case today concerning a man who decades ago touched a girls breasts. His probation and community service were completed in 1997 and his case was dismissed. He has no conviction. Even though his criminal case is sealed and the general public would otherwise have no knowledge

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Is de-listing sex offenders even possible? Lawsuit claims it is

News About Florida Sex Offender Registry Maybe we should call it a war between sex offender advocates? Strange lawsuit filed in a local federal court: A Texas-based service that claims to help sexual offenders get off the state registry that limits where they can live and work is suing a Boynton Beach nonprofit that wants to loosen registry rules. “I

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Sex offenders may soon be able to live closer to schools, day care centers in Jacksonville

News About Florida Sex Offender Laws JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Registered sex offenders in the River City may soon be able to live closer to schools, public libraries and other places children frequent if the Jacksonville City Council has anything to say about it. The city council will undergo a second reading of city ordinance 2017-667 on Tuesday. The bill’s primary

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Lisa Ling to feature “Age of Consent” on CNN’s ‘This is Life’

Lisa Ling  CNN special on Teen Sex Offenders This Sunday, at 10PM EST, CNN will air ‘This is Life, with Lisa Ling’ This week’s topic is “Age of Consent” and it talks about the legal and social consequences of convicting adolescents and young adults of sex offenses; when teenage sexuality crosses the line and becomes a crime. How Sex Offender

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Amended Complaint Filed in Miami-Dade SORR Challenge

News Regarding Florida Sex Offender Registry Laws An Amended Complaint was filed this week in the Miami-Dade Sex Offender Residency Restriction challenge. The original action, which was brought in 2014 by the Florida Action Committee and Individuals who were legislated into homelessness by the Miami-Dade Ordinance which prevented registered sex offenders from living within 2500 feet of a school, was

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Registered Sex Offender Killed While in Department of Corrections Custody

News about Florida Sexual Offenders A man incarcerated at the Wakulla Correctional Institute Annex, a Florida prison, was killed on Monday. He was a sex offender being held in a protective management program at the prison. While very few details are being released concerning his death, the 36 year old man was said to have been killed by another inmate.

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Must Listen: Michigan’s sex offender registry needs reform, U.S. Supreme Court decides

News from SCOTUS on Sex Offender Laws Please click the link below to hear J.J. Prescott, a University of Michigan law professor and expert on sex offender laws, talk about the state of the sex offender registry in Michigan, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision not to review a lower court’s ruling that the registry violates Ex Post

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Michigan must rewrite sex offender registry law

News from SCOTUS on Sexual Offender Laws DETROIT (AP) — Michigan’s sex offender registry law must be rewritten after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a decision that found the state was treating people as “moral lepers” by saddling them with excessive restrictions. The Supreme Court turned down an appeal from the state, 13 months after a federal

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