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• Official: Halloween child sex attacks unlikely

A nine-year study released in 2009 in the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers found there is no significant increase in the risk for non-familial child sexual abuse during this holiday period...
(Raymond L. Smith, Tribune Chronicle, Ca, October 27, 2016)

Edmonton judge rules national sex offender registry is unconstitutional

An Edmonton judge has ruled that the national sex offender registry is unconstitutional as it is “over broad and grossly disproportionate” and violates people of their charter rights.
(Tony Blais, Edmonton Journal, US, October 26, 2016)

• Illinois: Sex offender internet law constitutional

The state’s highest court has upheld a law that requires sex offenders to disclose information about their internet identities and websites.
(Andrew Maloney, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, US, October 20, 2016)

• Sex offender parolees not required to post 'do not disturb' signs on Halloween

Last year, a Chula Vista sex offender parolee was instructed to post a “do not disturb” sign in front of his residence on Halloween night to ward off trick-or-treaters.
(Brittny Mejia, L.A. Now, US, October 6, 2016)

• Heated debate over tougher punishment for sex crimes as some worry it could unfairly affect California's minorities

Outside the Santa Clara County Jail this month, U.S. Senate candidate Loretta Sanchez joined other political leaders in calling for the ouster of Santa Clara County District Judge Aaron Persky, who attracted widespread criticism over the lenient sentence he handed down to former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner.
(Jazmine Ulloa, Los Angeles Times, US, Sep. 22, 2016)

• Sex Offender Fights Removal From Hospice

A Florida city's sex-offender law faces scrutiny in litigation over whether a wheelchair-bound former doctor, convicted of patient abuse in the 1980s, should be forced out of a hospice due to its proximity to a school.
(IZZY KAPNICK , Courthouse News Service, US, Sep. 9, 2016)

• North Carolina Kicks Sex Offenders Out of Libraries, Parks, and Fairs

A new sex offender law took effect in North Carolina on Thursday, restricting offenders’ freedom of movement and association by barring them from libraries, recreational parks, pools, and fairs.
(Mark Joseph Stern, Xxfaxtor, US, Sep. 2, 2016)

• Court voids state sex offender registry for imposing unconstitutionally retroactive punishment

Today the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit held that recent amendments to Michigan’s Sex Offender Registration Act (SORA) are unconstitutional because they impose retroactive punishment on sex offenders in violation of the Constitution’s prohibition on ex post facto laws.
(Jonathan H. Adler, The Washington Post, US, Aug 25, 2016)

• Miami-Dade Sex Offender Homeless Encampment Reaches 250 People

The encampment of homeless sex offenders living alongside the railroad tracks on the street corner in a warehouse district in Miami-Dade county has reached two hundred fifty people.
(Staff writer, Florida Action Committee, US, Aug 24, 2016)

• U.S. Olympic swimmers’ lies unravel under scrutiny : The danger of simply believing

Victims’ advocates, particularly those who advocate for victims of sexual assault, argue that we should always believe the victim’s story. Simply believing a person who claims to be a victim of a criminal offense is extremely dangerous.
(Barbara Gale & Larry Neely, RSOL, US, Aug 20, 2016)

• Standoff outside convicted sex offender’s KCK home ends after 6 hours

"I will not got quietly. You might as well put a bullet in me now," shouted the 56-year-old Andrews to the many officers who surrounded his house and blocked off the major intersection.
(Robert Townsend, FOX4 News, US, Aug 16, 2016)

• California Reform Sex Offender Laws (CA RSOL) has a new name, Alliance for Constitutional Sex Offense Laws (ACSOL).

The CA RSOL board of directors determined that these changes are necessary because the organization has outgrown the borders of the State of California.
(Staff, The Verge, US, Aug 1, 2016)

• New York governor bars sex offenders from playing Pokémon Go

At the direction of Governor Andrew Cuomo, New York’s correctional department has made playing online games a violation of parole for sex offenders — particularly Pokémon Go.
(Adi Robertson, ACSOL, US, Aug 1, 2016)

• The Sex Offender Registry: Public Safety or Witch Hunt?

Hello. Many of you know me as Dragonlover on the various Boylove sites. But, there is one thing that you may not know about me: that I am a registered sex offender.
(Dragonlover, Editorial, US, July 10, 2016)

• Letter: Celebrating freedom in the ‘Land of the Free’

As we prepare to stand watching and enjoying “the freedom parade,” with our children and grandchildren, we must think about the many families who are not allowed that privilege as a family.
(Georgina Schaff, Argus Leader, US, July 3, 2016)

• Janice’s Journal: David Slays Goliath Again

Like the young shepherd who battled the giant Goliath, Major David Ellis slayed Charles Rodrick in federal district court this week... Rodrick’s websites at one time required individuals to pay up to $500 to have their name, photo, home address and other personal information removed.
(Janice, CA RSOL, US, July 3, 2016)

• Sexophrenia: moral mania and mass hysteria

By Norm Pattis . . . I’m not hopping on the bandwagon circling the Santa Clara County, California, courthouse. Don’t add my name to the million-plus names of those calling for the scalp of Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky. Far from a goat, Judge Persky is a hero.
(rwvnral, RSOL, US, June 15, 2016)

• Another inflated, false, sex offender industry-related statistic

We should be used to them by now. The most infamous, of course, is the “frightening and high” recidivism risk assigned to those on the registry every time a politician opens his mouth to justify a new law or restriction…
(Sandy, RSOL, US, June 14, 2016)