Updated 4/23/2026; originally published 2/4/2025 at narsol.org as Sex offender residency restrictions: bad, bad public policy.” By Sandy . . . Residency restrictions for persons required to register as sexual offenders are often enacted for no reason other than neighboring towns
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By Sandy and John . . . Portez Smith arrived outside Jesse Grover’s duplex early on Sunday, November 17, 2024, yelling through the closed door, “Grover, you’re a f—ing pedophile,” and when Grover opened the door, Smith pulled out a gun and
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Portions of this are written based on conversations with several registrants. No one is identified, and any reference to them is stated in general terms. By Sandy and John D . . . The latest figure for persons registered as sex offenders
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By Sandy . . . In the many years that we have been tracking Halloween, this one fits the pattern of the past few years. There were the semi-frequent media and sheriff’s offices who were warning—and scaring—parents about people on sex offender
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NARSOL has completed its 2025 conference, its 17th consecutive one. It was a wonderful conference. So many thanks go to our conference committees; our attendees, both in-person and livestream; our speakers and workshop presenters; the hotel and its staff; our law enforcement
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By Ronald . . . Like every other inmate being released at Missouri’s Farmington Correctional Center, I received a voter registration card and instructions on how to restore voting rights as a felon. The instructions said, “The right to vote is automatically
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By Sandy . . . Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 12226 was opened in the fall of 2023. There were roughly 5,000 such posts in the United States at that time, but this was the first—and so far only–one established inside
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By Sandy . . . Follow the money trail. How often has this advice been given, and how often has the heeding of it led to the unraveling of an enigma or a crime. The sex offender industry is both an enigma
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By Sandy . . . “I am just one person,” he wrote. “I have been trying to find a place to live for ten months and it’s nigh impossible. . . I’m paroled to Milwaukee, a place I’m not legally allowed to
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By Sandy . . . The Jacob Wetterling Registration Act, which created the sex offender registry; Megan’s Law, which mandates public disclosure; the Adam Walsh Act, which sets new guidelines: Each name evokes the image of a child and, for those required
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