CARSON CITY — A judge Thursday will consider an emergency motion filed by lawyers for 17 unnamed plaintiffs seeking an 11th-hour stay of a Nevada law implementing new sex offender registration requirements. Clark County District Judge Douglas Smith scheduled the…
Month: June 2016
Preliminary Survey Results – Law Enforcement Perspectives on SORN
Here are the results from the Law Enforcement Perspectives on Sex Offender Registration and Notification Preliminary Survey Results https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/249189.pdf A couple of highlights to include: How often would you say you use or access information contained on your state’s sex…
Lawsuit challenges Nevada law governing registration
CARSON CITY — An amended lawsuit has been filed challenging a 2007 Nevada law governing registration and community notification of sex offenders and seeking to block its implementation next month. The lawsuit filed late Tuesday in Clark County District Court…
Constant alarm from investigators and disregard from leadership
Federal Officials Ignored Years of Internal Warnings About Deaths at Private Prisons Twenty thousand pages of previously unreleased documents reveal constant alarm from investigators—and disregard from leadership. In February, The Nation reported that at least 38 men died in the…