By Lenore Skenazy . . . Stunned joy is what most of us felt when we learned that Charlotte Sena, the 9-year-old abducted while riding her bike in upstate New York, has been found and returned to her family — alive. The alleged
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By Allen . . . I had been involved with child pornography since I was eleven years old. This persisted into my early twenties. I realized I had crossed a line at some point and had tried to stop several times, but
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By Jon Cruz . . . My SORA hearing has come and gone, and it would be an understatement to say it went very well. New York is one of relatively few states not to classify people required to register for past
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By Sandy . . . The headline sounds rather bad: “Peoria council points to sex offender at vice mayor’s house as grounds for resignation.” The first part of the accompanying piece lays out some seemingly valid reasons for concern: Derek Lawson, registered in
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By Larry and Sandy . . . After all the hoopla over the past several days regarding the booking of former president Donald Trump, NARSOL agrees with a recent article published by Reason Magazine. Mugshots are not taken for the purpose of
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By Jacob Sullum . . . Sunday, March 5, [2023] marks[ed]the 20th anniversary of Smith v. Doe, a U.S. Supreme Court decision that approved retroactive application of Alaska’s sex offender registry, deeming it preventive rather than punitive. That ruling helped propagate several
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Originally published at CT Mirror; published here in full with permission. By Cindy Prizio . . . This year will mark the 25th anniversary of the public Sex Offender Registry (SOR) in Connecticut. The SOR – also called the sexual offense registry by
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By Trevor Baratko . . . A former Fauquier County Public Schools middle school teacher indicted for felony counts of carnal knowledge involving a minor has had her charges reduced to misdemeanors. She will not spend time behind bars and will not
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By Levi Ismail . . . It’s costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars as more people file lawsuits claiming they shouldn’t be restricted by a registry that didn’t exist when they were convicted. Dozens of people have since been removed from the
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By Sandy . . . When the Adam Walsh Act became law in July of 2006, it authorized the U.S. Marshals to “. . . assist state, local, tribal and territorial authorities in the location and apprehension of non-compliant and fugitive sex offenders;
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