Man drowned in Duval County jail cell toilet after beating – help stop prison attacks against registrants.

August 1, 2019, 2:31 pm Sad news of a person convicted of a sexual offense being killed by a cellmate this week. People incarcerated on sexual offenses are often the targets of vigilantes. Some hate groups assign “points”

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WAR: When a sex offender calls, she’s there to listen

January 8, 2020, 5:51 pm Vicki Henry sits at the desk in her two-bedroom duplex on a recent Sunday morning and adjusts her phone headset, which she has nestled on hair with a deep magenta tinge, a rare

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Clean Slate: an Anti-Discrimination Bill that Discriminates

January 8, 2020, 4:43 pm People convicted of sex crimes generally do not reoffend. The Office of Policy and Management released two studies, one in 2012 and the other in 2017, that analyzed crimes committed by sex offenders

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Five Cases Could Significantly Reform Pennsylvania’s Sex Offense Registry.

January 7, 2020, 4:00 pm From The Appeal The Pennsylvania Supreme Court is expected to rule on five cases this year that could change how the state treats people convicted of sex offenses, and could ease the state’s

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New Bill filed in Florida House – HB 1055

January 6, 2020, 3:56 pm A new and potentially important bill was filed last week in the Florida House of Representatives. House Bill 1055, sponsored by Rep. Chuck Brannon III proposes the following changes to Florida’s registration laws:

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TN: Lawmaker Files Bill To Chemically Castrate Convicted Sex Offenders

January 3, 2020, 9:32 pm Tennessee Republican Bruce Griffey introduced a bill that would require anyone convicted of a sexual offense against a child under the age of 13 to be chemically castrated, Under the language of the

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Wisconsin Came Close To Changing A Rule That Often Leaves People On Sex Offense Registries Homeless

January 3, 2020, 3:17 pm From The Appeal: In May 2016, a local Fox station in Wisconsin reported a remarkable story. That March, a man who had served 11 years on second-degree child sexual assault had been released

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IL: residents who are registered again sue over notices warning them to move

January 1, 2020, 8:48 pm The lawsuit, filed Dec. 30 by 18 Wayside residents against the city of Aurora and Kane County State’s Attorney Joe McMahon, comes weeks after an Aurora police officer delivered letters to the men

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IN: Appeals Court affirms conviction for failing to register vehicle “operated on a regular basis”

December 30, 2019, 6:52 pm The Indiana Court of Appeals today affirmed the conviction of a man who was charged with failing to register a vehicle he “operates on a regular basis”. In this case, the defendant was

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Second Amended Complaint filed in Does v. Swearingen (Ex Post Facto Plus Case)

December 24, 2019, 1:00 am A second amended complaint was filed in Does v. Swearingen on Friday. As usual, Val Jonas, Todd Scher and their legal team did an exceptional job pleading on behalf of those required to

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NY: New Bill criminalizes registrants dressing as characters.

December 20, 2019, 2:24 pm It’s not necessarily a bad idea, we just have to wonder how necessary this new law will be. A New York Legislator has sponsored a bill that provides “No sex offender shall apply

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8th Circuit affirms use of electronic video surveillance equipment in failure to register arrest.

December 14, 2019, 5:41 pm This one is for those who think “who will know”…The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court’s allowance of electronic video surveillance equipment as used by law enforcement to catch someone

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Guards denied medical care to an accused sex offender.

December 18, 2019, 7:15 pm For hours before he died in a northern Vermont prison this month, Kenneth Johnson struggled to breathe and begged for medical attention, according to a fellow inmate who was with Johnson that night.

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SCOTUS denies cert. in homeless case. May benefit transient persons required to register as sex offenders.

December 17, 2019, 2:17 pm The Supreme Court of the United States has refused to consider a 9th Circuit Court decision that, which upheld a decision that  homeless people have a constitutional right to sleep on public property

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MA: New Bill Proposes Changes to Sex Offender Laws in Massachusetts

December 12, 2019, 2:20 pm Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker is setting out to toughen sex offender laws. He is proposing two changes: (1) an increase to the penalty for rape of a child with force by someone who

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Mental Illness and the Sex Offender Registry

December 11, 2019, 2:40 pm Last week we were contacted by a member in Illiniois, Carol, with a heart-breaking story. Carol is the mother of two children, a son and a daughter. Carol’s son, Adam, suffers from Intellectual

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Florida Compassionate Release Bill Excludes the Usual

December 7, 2019, 7:45 pm State Rep. Bobby DuBose filed House Bill 837 which would grant early release to a prisoner who is suffering from “a significant terminal or non terminal condition, disease, or syndrome that has rendered

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Sex offender registry law in Pa. facing life-or-death test at Supreme Court

December 5, 2019, 11:32 pm The landmark Pennsylvania law that for nearly a quarter of a century has required a public registry of sex offenders and community notification about their whereabouts is facing a life-or-death challenge before the

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SOSEN: Child Custody/Visitation Laws Applicable to Registered Persons

December 2, 2019, 3:54 pm The following is a compilation of the parental termination laws of 50 states as they relate to persons required to register. http://sosen.org/blog/2019/12/01/child-custody-visitation-laws-applicable-to-registered-persons.html The post SOSEN: Child Custody/Visitation Laws Applicable to Registered Persons appeared

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7th Circuit case shows the lengths a law enforcement officer will go to mess with a registrant

November 29, 2019, 9:28 pm A case out of the 7th Circuit Court of appeals shows just how far a member of law enforcement will go to mess with someone on the registry and just how impossible it

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